Durbaniopsis saga

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

Durbaniopsis saga (Trimen, 1883).

Type locality: South Africa: “on the Hex River Mountain, in the Worcester district of the Cape Colony”.

Holotype: ♂ DNMNH?, i.1882, (Mr. L. Péringuey).

D'Urbania saga Trimen, 1883: 354;
Durbania saga (Trimen); Seitz, [1922]: 303, pl.62a.
Durbaniopsis saga (Trimen); van Son, 1959: 12; Stempffer, 1967: [ 28]; Williams, 2007: Durbaniina 10.

Seitz, A. 1908–1927. Die afrikanischen Tagfalter. Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde 13: 1–613, pls. 1–80. 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.
Trimen, R., 1883. Descriptions of twelve new species of South-African Lepidoptera – Rhopalocera. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1883: 347–363. BHL. Reference page.
van Son, G., 1959. A revision of the lycaenid genus Durbania Trimen, with the description of two new genera and two subspecies. Novos Taxa Entomologicos 16: 15 pp. Reference page.
Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.