Heliophorus tamu

Heliophorus tamu from original description.

Heliophorus tamu, ♂, Nepal.

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: Lycaeninae
Genus: Heliophorus
Subgenus: Kulua
Species: Heliophorus tamu

Name

Heliophorus tamu (Kollar, 1844).

Type locality: North India, "Himal. Massuri".

Holotype: NHMW.

Synonymy

• Polyommatu tamu [sic] Kollar, 1844: 417, pl.5 figs 7,8.
  • Polyommatus tamu recte.
• Thecla tamu (Kollar); Westwood, [1851]: 487
• Ilerda tamu (Kollar); Moore, 1858: 28.
• Ilerda viridipunctata de Nicéville, 1890: 329, pl.28 fig 207. Synonymy in Riley, 1929: 22.
• Heliophorus tamu (Kollar); Riley, 1929: 399.
• Heliophorus (Kulua) tamu (Kollar); Yago, 2002.

References

• Kollar, V., 1844–1848. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der von Freihern Carl v. Hügel aur seiner Reise durch Kaschmir. (Lepidoptera). In Hügel, C., Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek Stuttgart, Halbergerische verlagshandlung 4(2): 397–398, 403–496, 22 pls.. 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. 
• Riley, N.D., 1929. Revisional Notes on the Genus Heliophorus (Lycaenidae) with Descriptions of New Forms. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 33: 384-402, 28 text figs. BHL. 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. 
• Yago, M,, 2002. Comparative morphology and identification of the subgenus Kulua, with description of a new species from Vietnam (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Heliophorus). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 145 (2): 145-171. Reference page.