Altiapa decolor

Altiapa decolor in Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 2016

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: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Satyrinae
Tribus: Satyrini
Subtribus: Hypocystina
Genus: Altiapa
Species: Altiapa decolor

Name

Altiapa decolor (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905).

Type locality: "British New Guinea, Angabunga River, 6000ft".

Holotype: BMNH. male ♂. 1904/5. Genit. vial #1250, (A.S. Meek).

Synonymy

• Platypthima decolor Rothschild & Jordan, 1905: 459; D'Abrera, 1977: 268/9.
• Altiapa pandora Parsons, 1998: 561 (partim), pl.92, fig.2645 (misidentification).
• Altiapa decolor (Rothschild & Jordan); Parsons, 1998: 561, pl.91 figs 2639-41, pl.92 figs 2642,43, pl.XIX genit.; Muller & Tennent, 2016: 21, figs 22-30.

References

• D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Müller, C.J. & Tennent, W.J. 2016. A new species of Altiapa Parsons, 1986 from Papua New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) Tropical Lepidoptera Research 26(1): 19-24. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1986. A new genus and twenty-six new species of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae) from Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. Tyô to Ga 37(3): 103–177, 160 figs. Jstage. Reference page. 
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page. 
• Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1905. On some new Lepidoptera discovered by A. S. Meek in British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 448–478. BHL Reference page.