Hypolycaena philippus

Hypolycaena phillipus

Taxonavigation

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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

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Hypolycaena philippus (Fabricius, 1793)

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

Synonymy

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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

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  • 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.