Tuxentius calice

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Tuxentius
Species: Tuxentius calice
Subspecies: T. c. calice –T. c. gregorii

Name

Tuxentius calice Hopffer, 1855.

Type locality: "Querimba", Mozambique.

Typus: not located.

Synonymy

• Lycaena calice Hopffer, 1855: 642.
  
• Cupido calice [Hopffer]; Aurvillius, in Seitz, [1913]: 467, Pl.73b.
• Tuxentius calice [Hopffer]; Bridges, 1994: VIII.88, IX.132.
• Tuxentius calice calice [Hopffer]; Ackery, et al, 1995: 645.

References

• Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page. 
• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Butler, 1894. On a collection of Lepidoptera from British East Africa, made by Dr. J.W. Gregory between the months of March and August 1893. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1894(4): 557-593, pls.36, 37. Reference page. 
• Hopffer, C. 1855. Lepidoptera Diurna. Berichte über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 639–643. Reference page. 
• Seitz, A. 1913. Die Großschmetterlinge des Afrikanischen Faunengebietes, Eulenartige Nachtfalter. Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde 15: 1–302, pls. 1–41. Reference page.