Luthrodes pandava

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Luthrodes
Species: Luthrodes pandava
Subspecies: L. p. insularis – L. p. lanka – L. p. pandava – L. p. vapanda

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

Luthrodes pandava (Horsfield, [1829]).

Type locality: "Java", see Horsfield, 1858: 22.

Lectotype: ♀ BMNH "60. 15., E.l.C. / Lycaena, Pandava, type, HRSFLD. / BMNH(E) # 2644l4", designated by Bálint, 1999: 50.

Synonyms

Lycaena pandava Horsfield, 1829: 84; Horsfield, 1858: 22.
Catochrysops bengalia de Nicéville, 1885: 47. Bengal.
Catochrysops pandava (Horsfield); de Nicéville, 1890a: 183.
Catochrysops nicola Swinhoe, 1885: 132. Lectotype ♀ BMNH "Poona, [Zizera nicola, ♀, type Swinh.]/ BMNH(E) #264420". Designated by Bálint, 1999: 47.
Chilades pandava (Horsfield); Chapman, 1916: 178; Bridges, 1994: IX.26; Bálint, 1999: 50;
Luthrodes pandava (Horsfield); Talavera et al, 2013: 188.

References

Bálint, Z.,1999. Annotated list of type specimens of Polyommatus sensu Eliot of the Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). PDF. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 46: 3–82. Reference page.
Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
Chapman, T., 1916. On the pairing of the Plebeiid blue butterflies (Lycaeninae, Plebiidi). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1916: 156-180, pls 18-62. Reference page.
Horsfield, T. 1828–1829. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Honourable East India Company. 144pp., 4 pls., London. Reference page.
Horsfield, T. [1858]. in Moore, F. & Horsfield, T. Catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the Museum of the Honourable East India Company Vol. 1 i–v, 1–14, 17–278, i–iv, 1–11; pls 1–12, 1a–6a. London. Reference page.
de Nicéville, L., 1885. List of the Butterflies of Calcutta and its Neighbourhood with Notes on Habits, Food-Plants, etc. Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal 54: 39-54. Reference page.
de Nicéville, L., 1890. The butterflies of India, Burmah & Ceylon. 3. Calcutta, xi + 503 pp., Pls XXV-XXIX. Reference page.
Swinhoe, C., 1885. On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1885(1): 124-148, pl. 9. text, plate. Reference page.
Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R., 2013. Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics 29(2): 166–192. Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Plains Cupid
日本語: クロマダラソテツシジミ
தமிழ்: நாட்டு நீலன்