Horaga amethysta purpurescens

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: Horagini
Genus: Horaga
Species: Horaga amethysta
Subspecies: Horaga amethysta purpurescens

Name

Horaga amethysta purpurescens Corbet, 1941.

Type locality: West Malaysia, Negri Sembilan.

Holotype: ♂ Port Dickson, 9.i.1938 (Ben, Selangor Museum collector).
Note: According to Cowan: "The holotype and allotype specimens which were in the F.M.S. Museum, Malaya, until the 1939-45 war, must be presumed lost, but there survive in B.M.(N.H.) three females of Corbet's original type-series."

Synonymy

Horaga amethystus purpurescens [sic] Corbet, 1941: 47; D'Abrera, 1986: 595; Eliot, 1992: 423.
Horaga amethysta purpurescens Corbet; Cowan, 1966: 131.

References

D'Abrera, B. 1986. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part III Lycaenidae & Riodinidae: pp. 536–672. Hill House, Melbourne. Reference page.
Corbet, A. S., 1941. A revision of the Malayan species of Horaga Moore (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 10(3): 46. Reference page.
Cowan C. F., 1966. Indo-oriental Horagini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) 18(4): 105–141, 3 pls. BHL Reference page.
Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 595pp., 69 pls. Reference page.