Hypolycaena philippus

Hypolycaena phillipus

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: Hypolycaenini
Genus: Hypolycaena
Species: Hypolycaena philippus
Sub-Species: H. p. philippus – H. p. ramonza

Name

Hypolycaena philippus (Fabricius, 1793)

Type locality: [Africa]: “India”. [False locality.] Probably Sierra Leone (Larsen, 2005).

Synonymy

Hesperia philippus Fabricius, 1793:283. Ilaus orejus Hopffer, 1855: 641. Mozambique: “Mossambique”.
Amblypodia erylus Trimen, 1866: 228. Cape Town. South Africa: “Bashee River, Kaffraria; King William’s Town, British Kaffraria”.

References

• Fabricius, J.C. 1792. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Pars 1. Hafniae: C.G. Proft, xx + 330 pp. BHL PDF Reference page. 
• Hopffer, C. 1855. Lepidoptera Diurna. Berichte über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 639–643. Reference page. 
• Larsen, T. 2005. Butterflies of West Africa. Apollo Books, Svendborg, Denmark: 1–595, 1-270.
• Trimen, R., 1866. Rhopalocera Africae Australis Part 2. Satyridae, Eurytelidae, Lycaenidae, and Hesperidae [recte Hesperiidae] 183-353 + [xxi] pp. Cape Town.
• Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from [1] Afrotropical Butterflies.