Drupadia scaeva cyara

Drupadia scaeva cyara, ♀, India, Darjeeling, as Myrina cyara Hew., 1878.

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
Tribus: Cheritrini
Genus: Drupadia
Species: Drupadia scaeva
Subspecies: Drupadia scaeva cyara

Name

Drupadia scaeva cyara (Hewitson, 1878).

Type locality: India.

Holotype: ♀ BMNH, West Bengal (North) , Darjeeling, ex coll. Hewitson.

Synonymy

• [Myrina melisa '♀' Hewitson, 1869: Suppl. p.26, Suppl, pl.3, figs 82,83. Misidentification.]
• Myrina cyara Hewitson, 1878: Suppl. p.26, Suppl. pl.3b, figs 109,110.
• Biduanda cyara (Hewitson); de Nicéville, 1890: 427; Riley & Godfrey, 1921: 187; Seitz, 1926: 988, pl.146B, figs d2,d3 (as melisa), d4,d5.
• Biduanda melisa cyara (Hewitson); Evans, 1925: 766.
• Marmessus scaeva cyara (Hewitson); Cantlie, 1963: 135
• Drupadia scaeva cyara (Hewitson): Cowan, 1974: 342, pl.3, figs 77,81.

References

• Cantlie, K., 1963. The Lycaenidae portion of Evans' Identification of Indian Butterflies (1932) reissued and revised, 160 pp., 6 pls. Bombay. Reference page. 
• Cowan C. F., 1974. The Indo-Oriental genus Drupadia Moore (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) 29(6): 281–356, 6 pls, 15 figs. BHL Reference page. 
• Evans, W.H. 1925. The identification of Indian butterflies, Pt.9. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 30(4): 756-776, pl.29. Reference page. 
• Hewitson, W.C. 1863–1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls. Text, plates. Reference page. 
• de Nicéville, L., 1890. The butterflies of India, Burmah & Ceylon. 3. Calcutta, xi + 503 pp., Pls XXV-XXIX. Reference page. 
• Riley, N.D. & Godfrey, E. J., 1925. New Rhopalocera from Siam and Hainan. Entomologist 58: 140-143, pl. 3, 7 figs. Reference page.