Tajuria cippus

Tajuria cippus, ♂, Hyderabad, India, J. M. Garg 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
Tribus: Iolaini
Genus: Tajuria
Species: Tajuria cippus
Subspecies: T. c. bagus – T. c. cippus – T. c. frontinus – T. c. longinus – T. c. malcolmi – T. c. maxentius – T. c. moultoni – T. c. pseudolonginus – T. c. theodosius – T. c. vandeldeni

Name

Tajuria cippus (Fabricius, 1798).

Type locality: "India Orientali"

Syntype: ♂ ZMUC.

Synonymy

• Hesperia cippus Fabricius, 1789: 429, no. 43-4.
• Hesperia longinus Fabricius, 1789: 430, no. 77-8.
• Polyommatus cippus (Fabricius); Godart, 1819-1824: 634.
• Amblypodia cippus (Fabricius); Westwood, [1851]: 478.
• Iolaus cippus (Fabricius); Hewitson, 1865: 46, (Suppl.) 11, pl. 4, figs 39, 40 ♂.
• Tajuria cippus (Fabricius); Fruhstorfer, 1912: 210; Yutaka, consulted 11.xii.2012.
• Tajuria cippus cippus Pinratana, 1981: 129, pl. 32, figs 10 ♂, 11 ♀, pl. 34, fig. 17 (Un).

References

• Fabricius, J.C. 1792. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Pars 2. Hafniae: C.G. Proft, 538 pp. BHL PDF Reference page. 
• Fruhstorfer, H. 1911. Ubersicht der Lycaeniden des Indo-Australischen Gebiets. Begründet auf die Ausbeute und die Sammlung des Autors. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 56(3/4): 197–272, 4 figs. Reference page. 
• Godart, J. B. 1819–1824. In Latreille & Godart, Encyclopedie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes 9 (article Papillons) (1): 1–328; (2): 329-828. Paris. Reference page. 
• Hewitson, W.C. 1863–1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls. Text, plates. Reference page. 
• Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls.31–80 + suppl.pl. London. text, plates. Reference page. 
• Yutaka, I. & Saito, K., A Checklist of Butterflies in Indo-China, Chiefly from Thailand, Laos & Vietnam.

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