Chrysoritis zeuxo (Linnaeus 1764)

Heath, Alan, 2023, Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part III: An integrative taxonomic revision, Metamorphosis 34 (1), pp. 11-28 : 15

Chrysoritis zeuxo (Linnaeus 1764) .

Papilio zeuxo Linnaeus 1764: 331 .

Lectotype: Swedish NHM. Type locality: Cap. Bonae Spei . (Cape Peninsula) .

Characters: Upper side orange with broad dark margins and dark quadrate post-discal spots and sub-marginal markings. Hindwing verso, greyish-brown to orange with a weak pattern of spots outlined in a darker shade that correspond with the spots of the upper surface. Male aedeagus contains a tiny cluster of cornuti attached to the vesica. Forewings with ten or eleven veins. Chrysoritis zeuxo is derived from C. zonarius in the COI and EF trees; C. zeuxo renders C. zonarius paraphyletic, possibly as a consequence of ILS. Univoltine. Host ant Crem. liengmei host plant Osteospermum moniliferum . Juvenile stages illustrated in Clark & Dickson, 1971: 190. See C. zonarius (below) for taxonomic notes.

Conservation status of C. zeuxo zeuxo : LC.