Biology:Thermozephyrus
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Short description: Monotypic butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae
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Genus: | Thermozephyrus Inomata & Itagaki, 1986
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Species: | T ataxus
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Thermozephyrus ataxus (Westwood, 1851)[verification needed]
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Thermozephyrus ataxus, the wonderful hairstreak,[1] is a small butterfly found from India to Japan that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Taxonomy
The butterfly was previously classified as Thecla ataxus Doubleday.[2] It is also presently classified as Chrysozephyrus ataxus.[3]
Range
The species occurs in Murree (Pakistan ), and in India from Jammu and Kashmir to Kumaon and in the Naga Hills.[2] In general, the range extends from the western Himalaya s to China and Japan .[4]
Subspecies
- Thermozephyrus ataxus ataxus (north-western India to Upper Burma)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus kirishimaensis (Okajima, 1922) (Japan)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus lingi (Okano & Okura, 1969) (Taiwan)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus motohiroi (Fujioka, 2001)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus yakushimaensis (Yazaki, 1924) (Japan)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus tsukiyamai (Fujioka, 2001) (Myanmar)
- Thermozephyrus ataxus zulla (Tytler, 1915) (Assam, western China)
Cited references
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Chrysozephyrus ataxus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=195858. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 250, ser no H41.4.
- ↑ Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Chrysozephyrus.
- ↑ Thermozephyrus at funet
See also
References
- Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
- "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/.
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329. https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkgAQAAMAAJ.
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