Rapala damona

Rapala damona, ♂, Thailand.

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
Tribe: Deudorigini
Genus: Rapala
Species: Rapala damona

Name

Rapala damona Swinhoe, 1890.

Type locality: South Andaman Is.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

• Rapala damona Swinhoe, 1890: 450; Pinratana, 1981: 149, pl. 27, fig. 12; Seki et al, 1991: 97, pl. 65, L351; Eliot, 1992: 328, 425, pl. 51, figs 1, 2.
• Rapala rubicunda Evans, [1925]: 771, TL: Andamans.

References

• Eliot, J. N., 1992. In Corbet & Pendlebury, The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. 4th Edn. Kuala Lumpur.
• Evans, W. H., 1925. The identification of Indian butterflies, Part 8. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30(4): 756–776, 1 pl.
• Pinratana, A., 1981. Butterflies in Thailand, Vol. 4, Lycaenidae.Viratham Press, Bangkok.
• Seki, Y., Takanami, Y. and Otsuka, K., 1991. Butterflies of Borneo Vol. 2, No. 1. Lycaenidae. Tobishima Corporation, Tokyo.
• Swinhoe, C., 1890. Descriptions of three new species of Lycaenidae. Ann. mag. Nat. Hist. (6)5: 449-451.

Vernacular names

বাংলা: মালয় রেড ফ্ল্যাশ
English: Malay red flash

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