Psychonotis melane

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Psychonotis
Species: Psychonotis melane
Subspecies: P. m. astra – P. m. melane

Name

Psychonotis melane (Joicey and Talbot, 1916)

Type locality: Irian Jaya, Wandammen Mts.

Holotype: BMNH ♂

Synonymy

• Thysonotis melane Joicey & Talbot, 1916: 82, pl.7, fig.7.
• Psychonotis melane (Joicey & Talbot); D'Abrera, 1977: 328; Hirowatari, 1992: 29; Bridges, 1994: IX.111.
• Psychonotis melane melane (Joicey & Talbot); Schröder, 2019.

References

• D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne. 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. 
• Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page. 
• Joicey, J. J. and Talbot, G., 1916. New lepidoptera from Dutch New Guinea. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 8(17): 68-90, 4 pls. BHL text. plates. Reference page. 
• Schröder, S., 2019. Notes on the genus Psychonotis (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Western New Guinea (Papua and Papua Barat), with description of a new subspecies of P. melane (Joicey & Talbot, 1916). Suara Serangga Papua (SUGAPA digital), 11(2): 79-86. [PDF] Reference page. 

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