Biology:Jamides allectus

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Jamides allectus
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Jamides allectus sarmice Holotype. From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Jamides
Species:
J. allectus
Binomial name
Jamides allectus
(Grose-Smith, 1894).[1]
Synonyms
  • Lampides allectus Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Lampides aleuas sarmice Fruhstorfer, 1915

Jamides allectus is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1894. It is endemic to New Guinea (West Irian and New Ireland).[2]

Subspecies

  • J. a. allectus (Irian Jaya)
  • J. a. jobiensis Tite, 1960 (Jobi)
  • J. a. sarmice (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (New Ireland)

References

  1. Grose-Smith, 1894 Descriptions of nine new species of butterflies, from the Sattelberg, near Finsch Hafen, German New Guinea, in the collections of the Honourable Walter Rothschild and H. Grose Smith, captured by Captains Cayley Webster and Cotton Novitates Zoologicae 1 (3): 585-590
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

External links

  • Jamides Hübner, [1819] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.

Wikidata ☰ Q26879437 entry