Chrysoritis pyramus (Pennington 1953)

Heath, Alan, 2023, Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part III: An integrative taxonomic revision, Metamorphosis 34 (1), pp. 11-28 : 22

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.4314/met.v34i1.02

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15747188

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/744C87AA-E74C-D74F-FF78-21B379AFF83C

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Chrysoritis pyramus (Pennington 1953)
status

 

Chrysoritis pyramus (Pennington 1953) .

Poecilmitis pyramus Pennington 1953: 105 .

Holotype: Ditsong NM. Type locality: Zwartberg Pass . Host ant: Crem. peringueyi for both subspecies. MPT: upper montane slopes and prominences.

Taxonomy: All subspecies combined form a monophyletic group, with 100% bootstrap support in the COI tree.

C. pyramus pyramus : This nominate subspecies is probably a localised melanistic form of the insect. Late instar illustrated in Fig. 11 View Figure 11 . Conservation status: LC – Rare.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Papilionoidea

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Chrysoritis

Loc

Chrysoritis pyramus (Pennington 1953)

Heath, Alan 2023
2023
Loc

Poecilmitis pyramus Pennington 1953: 105

Butler 1899: 105
1899
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF