Rysops scintilla

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

Name

Rysops scintilla (Mabille, 1877).

Type locality: Madagascar, "Tamatave".

Holotype: not located.

Lycaena scintilla Mabille, 1877: 72.
Lycaena quadriocularis Saalmüller, 1884: 100, pl. 1, figs 7, 8. Madagascar: “N.-B.” [Nossi-Bé].
Rysops scintilla (Mabille); Eliot, 1973: 452; Bridges, 1994: VIII.316, IX.114; Ackery et al, 1995: 636.
Catochrysops (Rysops) scintilla (Mabille); Lees et al, 2003; Williams, 2008, Polyommatini 1: 10.

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