Jamides carissima

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Jamides
Species: Jamides carissima
Subspecies: (3)
J. c. carissima – J. c. susana – J. c. thomasi

Name

Jamides carissima (Butler, [1876]).

Type locality: New Hebrides, Vanuatu, Erromango.

Syntypes: BMNH.

Synonymy

• Lampides carissima Butler, 1876: 615, pl. 67, figs. 4, 5.
• Jamides carissima (Butler); D'Abrera, 1977: 353; Hirowatari, 1992: 45.
• Jamides carissima carissima (Butler); Tennent, 2009: 80.

References

• Butler, A. G., 1876. On a collection of butterflies from the New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875(4): 610-619, pl. 67. Reference page. 
• D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page. 
• Tennent, W.J. 2009. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Vanuatu; Ol buttaflae blong Vanuatu. 192 pp., Storm Entomological Publishing, Dereham, Norfolk, England. Reference page. 

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