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Pithecops Horsfield, [1828]

Pithecops Horsfield, [1828]; Descr. Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1): 66, TS: Pithecops hylax Horsfield
Eupsychellus Röber, 1891; Tijdschr. Ent. 34: 316, TS: Lycaena dionisius Boisduval
Eupsychellus (Polyommatini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 448
Pithecops (Polyommatini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 448

Pithecops fulgens Doherty, 1889

Japan, Assam. See [About maps] Blue Quaker
Pithecops fulgens Doherty, 1889; J. asiat. Soc. Bengal 58 Pt.II (1) : 127, pl. 10, f. 6
Pithecops fulgens fulgens, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Pithecops fulgens ; [BIR, 269]; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 180, f. 9]; [MRS, 678]; [BMP: 237, pl. 61, f. 21]

P. f. fulgens

Assam, Vietnam, China?

P. f. urai Bethune-Baker

Taiwan Pithecops corvus urai ; [BOR, 648 (name)]
Pithecops fulgens urai ; [MRS, 678]

P. f. mariae de Nicéville, 1894

Sumatra, Borneo Pithecops mariae de Nicéville, 1894
Pithecops fulgens mariae ; [BOR, 648]

Pithecops dionisius (Boisduval, 1832)

Moluccas, Kai, West Irian - Papua, Darnley I., Bismarck Archipelage, Solomons. See [About maps] Lycaena dionisius Boisduval, 1832; in d'Urville, Voy. Astrolabe (Faune ent. Pacif.) 1 : 82, TL: New Guinea
staphylus Fruhstorfer²
oinopion Fruhstorfer²
Pithecops steirema Druce, 1890; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 5 (25) : 25, TL: Solomon Islands
Pithecops bassaris de Nicéville, [1893]; J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7 (3) : 327, pl. H, f. 4-5, TL: Ké Islands
euanthes Fruhstorfer²
peridesma Oberthür²
Pithecops dionisius, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
Lycaena dionysius ; (spell.?)
Pithecops peridesma ; [BOW: pl. 180, f. 10]
Eupsychellus dionysius[sic] ; Rothschild, 1915, Novit. Zool. 22 (3): 389
Eupsychellus dionisius ; [BAUR, 378]

Pithecops corvus Fruhstorfer, 1919

Japan. See [About maps] Forest Quaker
Pithecops corvus Fruhstorfer, 1919; Archiv Naturgesch. (A) 83 (1): 78, f. 1, TL: N.Borneo
?Pithecops hylax Horsfield, [1828]; Descr. Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1): pl. 1, f. 2
Pithecops ryukyuensis Shirôzu, 1964; Kontyu 32 (1): 171, TL: Okinawa
Pithecops cornix Cowan, 1965; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (13) 8: 421, TL: Hainan
Pithecops corvus, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
?Pithecops hylax Fabricius; [BIR, 268]
Pithecops corvus ; [BOW: pl. 180, f. 8]; [MRS, 678]

1056x718 (~50Kb) Funaura, Iriomote, Ryukyu, Japan, 5-95, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt

1134x1158 (~131Kb) underside Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Si Racha environs, the Chan-ta-Then River valley at lower reaches, 14th January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Larva on Desmodium lapurnifolium, D. gardneri [MRS]

P. c. corvus

Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya, Nias, Borneo Pithecops corvus corvus ; [BMP: 236, pl. 34, f. 35-36]; [BOR, 648]

P. c. corax Fruhstorfer, 1919

Java - Philippines Pithecops hylax corax Fruhstorfer, 1919; Archiv Naturgesch. (A) 83 (1): 79
Pithecops luzonica Murayama & Okamura, 1973; Tyô to Ga 24 (1) : 22, f. 39-40, TL: Ashin, Luzon
Pithecops corvus corax ; [BOR, 648 (name)]

P. c. phoenix Röber²

Sulawesi Pithecops corvus phoenix ; [BOR, 648 (name)]
Pithecops phoenix ;

P. c. correctus Cowan, 1965

S.Yunnan, ...? Pithecops correctus Cowan, 1965; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (13) 8: 421, TL: Naga Hills
Pithecops corvus correctus ; [MRS, 678]

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References:

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Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BAUR]

D'Abrera, 1977; Butterflies of the Australian Region (2nd edn)

[BIR]

Wynter-Blyth, M. A., 1957; Butterflies of the Indian Region; (1982 Reprint)

[BMP]

Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2

[BOR]

D'Abrera, B., 1982, 1985, 1986; Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part I-III

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[Don Herbison-Evans]

and Stella A. Crossley; Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[LAMAS-2005]

Gerardo Lamas; Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)

[LAMAS-NEO]

Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[S. Shuichi Haupt]

e-mail: S. Shuichi Haupt; http://www.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ioeb/biologie/stefan.htm

[Yutaka Inayoshi]

A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM

[²]

This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:

Boisduval, 1832

Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandément de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. Lépidoptères in d'Urville, Voy. Astrolabe (Faune ent. Pacif.) 1 : 1-267, pl. 1-5

de Nicéville, [1893]

On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 7 (3) : 322-357, pl. H-J

Doherty, 1889

Notes on Assam butterflies J. asiat. Soc. Bengal 58 Pt.II (1) : 118-134

Druce, 1890

Descriptions of twelve new Species of Lycaenidae from West Africa, and one from the Solomon Islands, in the Collection of Herbert Druce Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 5 (25) : 24-31

Eliot, 1973

The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505, 162fgs, pl. 1-6

Fruhstorfer, 1919

Revision der Artengruppe Pithecops auf Grund der Morphologie der Klammerorgane Archiv Naturgesch. (A) 83 (1): 77-84, f. 1-4 (February)

Horsfield, [1828]

Descriptive Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects contained in the Museum of the Horourable East-India Company, illustrated by coloured figures of new species Descr. Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1): 1-80, pl. 1-4 (1828), (2): 81-144, pl. 5-8, (expl.) [1-2] (1829)

Murayama & Okamura, 1973

Butterflies of Luzon Island in the Philippines, with descriptions of new species and subspecies Tyô to Ga 24 (1) : 10-25, 48 fgs

Rothschild, 1915

On the Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum sent by Mr. A. S. Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier and Vulcan Islands Novit. Zool. 22 (2): 192-208, (3): 387-402

Röber, 1891

Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Indo-Australischen Lepidopteren-Fauna Tijdschr. Ent. 34: 261-334 (1891), 35: 85-86, pl. 3-6 (1892)

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