Discolampa albula

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

Name edit

Discolampa albula (Grose-Smith, 1897).

Type locality: New Guinea, Kapaur.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH: "Kapaur, Low c. i.97 (Doherty)".

Thysonotis albula Grose-Smith, 1897: 368. Type "♂" in fact a ♀.
Thysonotis olga Grose-Smith, 1898: 106. This is the ♂, conspecificity not recognised by the author. Synonymised by Parsons, 1998: 446.
Discolampa albula Grose-Smith; D'Abrera, 1977: 378; Hirowatari, 1992: 43; Parsons, 1998: 446, pl. 69, figs 2015-2017.

D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne. Reference page.
Grose-Smith, H., 1897. Descriptions of five new Species of Lycaenidae captured by Mr. Doherty, in the Tring Museum. Novit. zool. 4: 366-370. BHL. Reference page.
Grose-Smith, H., 1898. Descriptions of new Species of Oriental Butterflies. Novit. zool. 5(1): 103-110. BHL. Reference page.
Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page.
Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page.

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