Leptomyrina lara

Leptomyrina lara

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: Leptomyrina
Subgenus: Leptomyrina (Gonatomyrina)
Species: Leptomyrina lara

Name

Leptomyrina lara Linnaeus, 1764.

Type locality: South Africa: “Cap. b. Spei.”.

Lectotype: BMNH. male ♂. Reg. No. Rh. 18654. 15.XI.1975. leg. S. Braine. [Lectotype designated by Honey and Scoble, 2001: 341].

Synonymy

• Papilio lara Linnaeus, 1764: 320.
• Leptomyrina lara (Linnaeus); Aurivillius, 1924: 423.

References

• Aurivillius, C. 1908–1925. In: Seitz, A., 1908–25. Die Großschmetterlinge des Afrikanischen Faunengebietes. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 13: 1-613, pls. 1-80. Reference page. 
• Linnaeus, C. 1764. Museum Sae Rae Mtis Ludovicae Ulricae Reginae Svecorum, Gothorum, Vandalorumque. In quo Animalia Rariora Imprimis & Exotica: Insecta & Conchilia describuntur & determinantur. [viii], 1–720 + [2] pp. Holmiae [Stockholm]. BHL Reference page. 
• Mendes, L.F. & A. Bivar de Sousa, 2009: New account on the butterflies of Angola. The genus Leptomyrina (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana 141 (2): 109–112.

Links

• Williams, Mark C., 2008: Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea