Elymnias esaca esaca

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: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Satyrinae
Tribus: Elymniini
Subtribus: Elymniina
Genus: Elymnias
Species: Elymnias esaca
Subspecies: Elymnias esaca esaca

Name

Elymnias esaca esaca (Westwood, 1851)

Type locality: "East Indies".

Holotype: BMNH

Synonymy

• Melanitis esaca Westwood, 1851: 405.
• Elymnias godferyi Distant, 1883: 351. TL: Sungei Ujong (Peninsular Malaysia: Negeri Sembilan, Sungei Ujong).
• Dyctis esacoides de Nicéville, [1893]: 323, pl.H fig.2. TL: Perak (Peninsular Malaysia: Perak), Battak Mountains7 (Indonesia: North Sumatra). Indian Museum, Calcutta.

References

• Distant, W.L. 1883. Contributions to a Knowledge of Malayan Entomology Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)12: 351–353. BHL Reference page. 
• Hanafusa, H. 1993. A list of butterflies from Mentawai Islands, Indonesia (1). Futao 11: 1–13. Reference page. 
• Hanafusa, H. 1994: Eight new butterflies from Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae). Futao 17: 18–23.
• de Nicéville, L., [1893]. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 7: 322–357, 3 pls. BHL text plates. Reference page. 
• Tateishi, U., 2001: A review of Elymnias esaca Westwood with descriptions of four new subspecies from South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Satyridae). Futao 39: 13–19.
• Wei, C-H., Lohman, D.J., Peggie, D. & Yen, S-H. 2017. An illustrated checklist of the genus Elymnias Hübner, 1818 (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). ZooKeys 676: 47—152. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.676.12579. Reference page. 
• Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls.31–80 + suppl.pl. London. text, plates. Reference page.