Deudorix livia

Deudorix livia

Taxonavigation

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: Theclinae
Tribe: Deudorigini
Genus: Deudorix
Subgenus: Virachola
Species: Deudorix livia
Subspecies: D. l. barnetti – D. l. livia

Name

Deudorix livia (Klug, [1834]).

Type locality: Egypt, "Inter Kineh et Assuan".

Holotype: not located.

Synonymy

• Lycaena livia Klug, 1834: pl. 40, figs 3-6.
• Lampides ethoda Walker, 1870: 51. Synonymised in Tshikolovets, 2011: 140.
• Virachola livia pallescens Rothschild, 1921: 154. Synonymised in Tshikolovets, 2011: 140.
• Deudorix livia (Klug); Tshikolovets, 2011.

References

• Klug, J. C. F., 1829-1845. Insects. In Ehrenberg, C. G., Symbolae physicae seu Icones et descriptiones corporum naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum: quae ex itineribus per Libyam Aegyptum Nubiam Dongalam Syriam Arabiam et Habessiniam publico institutis sumptu F.G.H. et C.G.E. (3). Pars zoologica II, Insecta. Hemprich et Ehrenberg, Berlin, unpaginated letterpress, 50 pls. Web. Reference page. 
• Rothschild, W., 1921. On the Lepidoptera collected by Captain A. Buchanan in northern Nigeria and the southern Sahara in 1919-1920. Novit zool. 28: 142-170, 215-229.
• Tshikolovets, V. V., 2011. Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean Area Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic. ISBN 1978-80-904900-0-0.
• Walker, F., 1870. A list of the butterflies collected by J.K. Lord, Esq., in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the species new to science. Entomologist 5: 48-57.