Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Iolaini
Genus: Tajuria
Species: Tajuria megistia
Subspecies: T. m. megistia – T. m. thria

Tajuria megistia and subspecies thria, from Seitz.
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

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Tajuria megistia (Hewitson, [1869]).

Type locality: N. India, Assam.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

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  • Myrina megistia Hewitson, 1869: Supp. 5, figs 77, 78 ♂.
  • Remelana megisbia [sic] (Hewitson); Doherty, 1886: 128.
  • Tajuria megistia (Hewitson); de Nicéville, 1890: 383. Khasi Hills; Swinhoe, 1893: 303; Swinhoe, [1912]: 121; Fruhstorfer, 1912: 214; Eliot, 1992: 313, 423, pl. 47, fig. 4.

References

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