Rapala melida

Rapala melida, ♂, Borneo, Courvoisier collection NHM Basel, Alan Cassidy photo.

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 melida
Subspecies: R. m. melida – R. m. palawanica

Name

Rapala melida Fruhstorfer, [1912].

Type locality: Borneo.

Lectotype: ♂ MNHU, Mt. Kinabalu, N.E. Borneo, designated by Takanami, 1989: 35.

Synonymy

• Rapala sphinx melida Fruhstorfer, [1912]: 257.
• Rapala elcia melida Fruhstorfer; Hayashi, Schröder & Treadaway, 1978: 215, genitalia figs 13-16.
• Rapala rhoecus melida Fruhstorfer; Takanami, 1989: 74, fig. A-91; Seki et al, 1991: 98, pl. 66, L357; Treadaway, 1995: 84.
• Rapala melida Fruhstorfer; Schröder & Treadaway, 2000: 61; Treadaway & Schröder, 2012: 44.

References

• Druce, H. H., 1895. A monograph of the Bornean Lycaenidae, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1895: 556-627, 4 pls.
• Fruhstorfer, H., 1912. Ubersicht der Lycaeniden des Indo-Australischen Gebiets. Begründet auf die Ausbeute und die Sammlung des Autors. Berl. ent. Z. 56(3/4): 197-272, 4 Figs.
• Hayashi, H., Schröder, H. & Treadaway, C., 1978. New species of Rapala and Sinthusa from Mindanao (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Tyô-to-Ga 29(5): 215-219.
• Schröder, H., and Treadaway, C. G., 2000. Zur kenntnis philippinischer Lycaenidae, 14 (Lepidoptera). Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N. F. 21(2): 61–64.
• Seki, Y., Takanami, Y. and Otsuka, K., 1991. Butterflies of Borneo Vol. 2, No. 1. Lycaenidae. Tobishima Corporation, Tokyo.
• Takanami, Y., 1989. On some type specimens of Lycaenidae from South East Asia. Tyô to Ga 40(1): 23–80. Abstract and full article: [1].
• Treadaway, C. G., 1995. Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Nachr. entomol. Apollo Suppl.14: 7–118.
• Treadaway, C. G. & Schröder, H., 2012. Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nach. ent. Ver. Apollo 32 Suppl. 20, 64pp.