Deudorix wardii

Taxonavigation

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 wardii

Deudorix wardii Mabille, 1878.

Type locality: Madagascar.

Holotype: tbc.

Hypolycaena wardii Mabille, 1878: 82.
Thecla rutila Mabille, 1878: 83. Madagasacar.
Deudorix diopolis Hewitson, [1878]: Suppl. 30, pl.5a, figs 63,64 ♂.
Thecla rutilans Mabille, [1885]: pl.30a; [1887]: 342. Madagasacar: “Madagascar”. [Invalid; subsequent misspelling of rutila Mabille.]
Virachola wardii (Mabille); Stempffer, 1967: 110.
Deudorix (Virachola) wardi (Mabille); Ackery et al., 1995 [misspelling].
Deudorix (Virachola) wardii (Mabille); Williams, 2007: Deudoricina 58.

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Pennington, K.M. 1948. Two new species of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) from South Africa. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 10: 164–169. 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.