Hypochrysops coruscans

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: Luciini
Genus: Hypochrysops
Species: Hypochrysops coruscans
Subspecies: H. c. coruscans –H. c. subcaeruleum

Name

Hypochrysops coruscans (Grose-Smith, 1897).

Type locality: West Papua, Kapaur.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH: "Type, Kapaur, Dutch N. G., Low C. xii.96 Doherty, Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1, Gen. 1962. 396 G.E.T., Waigeum coruscans Gr.Sm. Type ♂".

Synonymy

• Waigeum coruscans Grose-Smith, 1897: 367; Rothschild, 1916: 31; Grünberg in Seitz, 1921: 833.
• Waigeum coruscans coruscans Grose-Smith; D'Abrera, 1971: 322; 1977: 322.
• Waigeum ribbei var. coruscans Grose-Smith; Ribbe, 1900: 337.
• Waigeum utyi Bethune-Baker, 1913: 567; D'Abrera, 1971: 372; 1977: 372; synonymised by Sands, 1986: 95.
• Hypochrysops coruscans coruscans (Grose-Smith); Sands, 1986: 95.

References

• D'Abrera, B., 1971. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 1. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne.Reference page. 
• D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Bethune-Baker, G. T., 1913. Descriptions of new species of lepidoptera from Africa and the East. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 8(11): 562–575. BHL. Reference page. 
• Grose-Smith, H., 1897. Descriptions of five new Species of Lycaenidae captured by Mr. Doherty, in the Tring Museum. Novit. zool. 4: 366-370. BHL. Reference page. 
• Ribbe, C., 1900 [1901]. Neue Lepidopteren von Ceram. Niederlandisch-Ostindien. Deutsche entomologische Zeitscrift 13: 334-337, pl.6. BHL text, plate. Reference page. 
• Rothschild, L.W. 1916. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists' Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea (Macrolepidoptera). 182 pp., 2 pls. Zoological Museum, Tring. Text, plates. Reference page. 
• Seitz, A. 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. The Macrolepidoptera of the World 9: 1–766; 767–1201, pls 1–175. Reference page. 

Links

• The Papua Insects Foundation, images.