Pulchroptera pulchra

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: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Heteropterinae
Genus: Pulchroptera
Species: Pulchroptera pulchra
Subspecies: P. p. ops – P. p. pulchra

Name

Pulchroptera pulchra (Leech, 1891)

Type locality: China, Ta Tsien Lu.

Typusː ♀ BMNH

Synonymy

• Pamphila pulchra Leech, 1891ː 59. (original combination)
• Carterocephalus pulchra pulchra (Leech); Evans, 1949ː 229; Lepindex
• Pulchroptera pulchra pulchra (Leech): Hou et al., 2021: 63

References

• Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page. 
• Hou, Y.X., Chiba, H., Zhu. J.J., Chang, Z., Ma, L.J., Huang, S.Y., Wang, M. & Fan, X.L. 2021. Molecular and morphological evidence reveals a new genus of the subfamily Heteropterinae (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) from China. ZooKeys 1055: 55–67. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1055.68640. . Reference page. 
• Leech, J. H., 1891. New species of Rhopalocera from Western China. The Entomologist 24 (Supplement): 57–61. BHL Reference page.