Iridana euprepes

euprepes, ♂, from original description.

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: Poritiinae
Tribus: Liptenini
Subtribus: Epitolina
Genus: Iridana
Species: Iridana euprepes

Name

Iridana euprepes (Druce, 1905).

Type locality: [Democratic Republic of Congo], not Zambia (see Cookson, 1954): “North-West Rhodesia”.

Holotype: BMNH?

Synonymy

• Iridopsis euprepes Druce, 1905: 254, pl.13 fig.8;
• Iridana euprepes Druce; Stempffer, 1967: 75; Williams, 2007: Epitolina 68.

References

• Cookson, H., 1954. Correction of locality name of new butterflies caught by H. Cookson in 1903, 1904, and 1905 and described by H. Druce. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 17: 265. Reference page. 
• Druce, H.H. 1905. Descriptions of some new species of diurnal Lepidoptera, collected by Mr. Harold Cookson in northern Rhodesia, in 1903 and 1904. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [53(2)]: 251–262, pl. 13. text, plate. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1905.tb02453.x Reference page. 
• Stempffer, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. Supplement 10: 322pp, 1pl. BHL Reference page. 
• Williams, M.C. 2007. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded from Afrotropical Butterflies. Reference page.