Thermozephyrus ataxus
| Wonderful Hairstreak | |
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| Museum specimen (From Japan) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Thermozephyrus Inomata & Itagaki, 1986 |
| Species: | T ataxus |
| Binomial name | |
| Thermozephyrus ataxus (Westwood, 1851) | |
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The Wonderful Hairstreak (Thermozephyrus ataxus)[1] is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
Female
Taxonomy
The butterfly was previously classified as Thecla ataxus Doubleday.[2] It is also presently classified as Chrysozephyrus smaragdinus.[3]
Range
In India, 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 Himalayas 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
- ↑ Card for ataxus in LepIndex. Accessed 16 Jun 2007.
- 1 2 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H41.4, pp 250.
- ↑ Markku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Chrysozephyrus genus.
- ↑ Thermozephyrus at funet
See also
References
- Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex.
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
- Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
- Markku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera .
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
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