Spalgis epius

Spalgis epius, Thailand, Brunei, Sulawesi, Bob Kennett/Alan Cassidy photos.

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: Miletinae
Tribus: Spalgini
Genus: Spalgis
Species: Spalgis epius
Sub-Species: S. e. dilama – S. e. epius – S. e. fangola – S. e. nubilus – S. e. pharnus – S. e. semperi – S. e. strigatus – S. e. substrigata – S. e. titius

Name

Spalgis epius (Westwood, [1851]).

Type locality: North India.

Holotype: ♀ not located.

Synonymy

• Lucia epius Westwood, [1851]: 502.
• Gerydus Ep. Westwood, [1851]: 502.
• Geridus [sic] epeus [sic]] Westwood, [1851]: pl. 76, fig. 5.
• Lucia epius Westwood; Moore, 1879: 137.
• Spalgis epeus [sic] (Westwood); D'Abrera, 1977:379.
• Spalgis epius (Westwood), Eliot, 1992: 413.

References

• D'Abrera, B. 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, edn 2. 415 pp. Lansdowne, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 595pp., 69 pls. Reference page. 
• Moore, F., 1879. Descriptions of new Asiatic diurnal Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1879: 136–144. BHL. Reference page. 
• Westwood, J. O., [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O. 1846-1852, The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, 2. pp. 251-534, pls. 31-80 + suppl. pl. London.

For more multimedia, look at Category:Spalgis epius on Wikimedia Commons.