Deudorix batikeli

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribe: Deudorigini
Genus: Deudorix
Subgenus: Virachola
Species: Deudorix batikeli

Name

Deudorix batikeli (Boisduval, 1833).

Type locality: Madagascar: “Foule-Pointe et de Tamatave [Toamasina]”.

Holotype: MNHN.

Synonymy

• Lycaena batikeli Boisduval, 1833: 172, pl.3 fig.5
• Lycaena tsiphana Boisduval, 1833: 173. Madagasacar: “Madagascar”.
• Virachola batikeli (Boisduval); Stempffer, 1967: 109.
• Virachola batikeli tsiphana (ab.) (Boisduval); Stempffer, 1967: 109. Infrasubspecific.
• Thecla licinia Mabille, 1878: 83. Madagasacar: “Madagascar”. Synonymy in Stempffer, 1967: 109.
• Deudorix derona Grose-Smith, 1891: 126. Madagasacar: “North-west coast”. Synonymy in Stempffer, 1967: 109.
• Deudorix (Virachola) batikeli (Hopffer); Williams, 2007: Deudoricina 38.

References

• Boisduval, J.-A. 1833. Mémoire sur les Lépidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle 2: 149–270. Reference page. 
• Carcasson, R.H. 1961. New and little-known African lepidoptera. Occasional Papers, Coryndon Memorial Museum, Nairobi 7: 1–23. Reference page. 
• Grose-Smith, H., 1891. Descriptions of ten new species of butterflies from the north-west coast of Madagascar, captured by Mr. J.T. Last, in the collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)7: 122–128. BHL. Reference page. 
• Mabille, P., 1878. Lepidoptera Africana. Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France 3: 81–95. BHL. Reference page. 
• Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.