Gangara thyrsis

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: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Erionotini
Genus: Gangara
Species: Gangara thyrsis
Subspecies: G. t. clothilda –G. t. magnificens –G. t. pandina –G. t. philippensis –G. t. siberutensis – G. t. thyrsis

Name

Gangara thyrsis (Fabricius, 1775)

Type Locality: "in America", recte India, Moulmein.

Holotype: NHMD.

Synonymy

Papilio thyrsis Fabricius, 1775: 532.
Hesperia pandia Moore, [1858]: 254. Calcutta. Synonymy in Evans, 1949: 325.
Telegonus thyrsis (Fabricius); Butler, [1869]: 262.
Gangara thyrsis yasodara Fruhstorfer, 1910: 103. Andamans. Synonymy in Evans, 1949: 325.
Gangara thyrsis hainana Sonan, 1938: 371. Hainan. Synonymy in Evans, 1949: 325.
Gangara thyrsis thyrsis (Fabricius); Evans, 1949: 325; Van der Poorten, 2020: 325, Pl.125 Fig.3.
Gangara thyrsis (Fabricius); Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003: 68.

References

Butler, A.G., 1869. Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera described by Fabricius in the Collection of the British Museum. London. 303pp, Pls.1-3. Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page.
Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae. xvi+ 832 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.36510. BHL. Reference page.
Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. Neue Hesperiden des Indo-Malayischen Faunengebietes. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 24(4,5): 58–104. Reference page.
Hanafusa, H. 2005. Some notes on butterflies from Sumatra and Siberut, Indonesia, with description of a new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Acraeidae, Nymphalidae, Hesperiidae). Futao 50: 7–9. Reference page.
Moore, F., [1858]. in Moore, F. & Horsfield, T. Catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the Museum of the Honourable East India Company 1. London. i-v, 1-14, 17-278, i-iv, 1-12, plates 1a-6a. Reference page.
Moore, F. 1881-83. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Vols. 1, 190pp, pls 1–71. 2, 162pp, pls 72–143. L. Reeve & Co., London. Reference page.
Sonan, J., 1938. A list of the butterflies of Hainan, with decriptions of two new subspecies of Hesperiidae. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa. 28: 348-372, 2 figs. Reference page.
van der Poorten, G.M. & van der Poorten, N.E. 2020; in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 5th Edn. Southdene Sdn. Bhd., Kuala Lumpur. Reference page.
Vane-Wright, R.I. & de Jong, R. 2003. The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen 343: 3–267, figs 1–14, pls 1–16. Online. Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Giant Redeye
हिन्दी: नवशाल रक्तलोचन