Chrysoritis lysander ( Pennington 1962 ), 2023

Heath, Alan, 2023, Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part III: An integrative taxonomic revision, Metamorphosis 34 (1), pp. 11-28 : 19-20

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15747172

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/744C87AA-E74F-D74D-FCC3-21B3794EFEB0

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Felipe

scientific name

Chrysoritis lysander ( Pennington 1962 )
status

stat. nov.

Chrysoritis lysander ( Pennington 1962) stat. rev.

Poecilmitis lysander Pennington 1962 View in CoL .

Holotype: Ditsong NM. Type locality: Kamieskroon, Namaqualand Distr.

MPT: low, mid and submontane gullies. Host ant: unrecorded. Material from this study is from Kamiesberg and its foothills.

Taxonomy: Monophyletic in the COI tree (100% bootstrap). Sample specimens from Kamieskroon, formerly treated as C. pan lysander , are morphologically similar to C. azurius . However its closest taxon in the COI tree is not C. azurius but a C. aridimontis (sample AH07C 166 in mt clade 1), 12 mutational steps away in the network. Despite resembling C. azurius , the two species are well separated phylogenetically and geographically. Material from the Kamiesberg region, formerly treated as C. pan lysander , is returned to species status as Chrysoritis lysander stat. rev. Also, material taken from 2 km north of Eksteenfontein, Richtersveld and recently from near Oranjemund, southern Namibia (S. Braine) may also be this species.

Conservation status: LC.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

SuperFamily

Papilionoidea

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Chrysoritis

Loc

Chrysoritis lysander ( Pennington 1962 )

Heath, Alan 2023
2023
Loc

Poecilmitis lysander

Pennington 1962
1962
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