Jamides cyta amphissa

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Jamides
Species: Jamides cyta
Subspecies: Jamides cyta amphissa

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

Name

Jamides cyta amphissa C. Felder and R. Felder, 1860

Type locality: Bacan

Holotype: Tring Zoological Museum, England.

Synonymy

Catochrysops cyta amphissa C. & R. Felder, 1860: 244.
Lampides viosa Fruhstorfer, 1915: 27.
Jamides cyta amphissa (Felder); D'Abrera, 1977: 355; Rawlins et al, 2014: pl. 2 figs 67-68.

[Note: Some authors have considered zelea to be synonymous with amphissa, but the hindwing underside sub-tornal orange markings are consistently much reduced in zelea compared with amphissa.]

References

D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne. Reference page.
Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1860. Lepidopterologische Fragmente. VI. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift '4(8): 225–251. BHL. Taf. 3,4. BHL. Reference page.
Fruhstorfer, H., [1916]. Revision der Gattung Lampides auf Grand anatomischer Untersuchungen. Arch. Naturgesch. (A)81(6): 1–46, 1 text-fig., 4 pls. text, plates. Reference page.
Müller, C.J. 2016. A stunning new species of Jamides Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), with notes on sympatric congeners from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. ZooKeys 571: 113–131. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.571.7356.Reference page.
Rawlins, A., Cassidy, A., Müller, C., Schröder, S. & Tennent, W. J. 2014. An Illustrated and annotated checklist of Jamides Hübner, 1819, taxa occurring in the Indonesian Provinces of North Maluku and Maluku (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo N.F. 35(1/2): 5-39. web Reference page.