Chrysoritis pyroeis (Trimen 1864)
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Felipe |
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Chrysoritis pyroeis (Trimen 1864) |
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Chrysoritis pyroeis (Trimen 1864) .
Zeritis pyroeis Trimen 1864: 178 .
Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: Cape Province.
Host ant: Myrmicaria nigra (Mayr 1862) . Host plants: Roepera flexuosa ; R. sessilifolia ; R. morgsana ( Zygophyllaceae ); Thesium species. Cottrell (1984) hypothesised that the structural colouring and iridescence in C. pyroeis may have evolved independently from that seen in the thysbe clade. Forewing with twelve veins. Larvae have unusually long tubercle casings to their TOs. Juvenile stages illustrated in Clark & Dickson (1971: 191).
Conservation status: LC.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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