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Chrysoritis aethon
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Description
Chrysoritis aethon (Trimen 1887).
Zeritis aethon Trimen 1887: 176.
Holotype: Iziko Museum. Type locality: Lydenburg District.
This species is sister to C. aureus.
Host ant: Crem. liengmei. Host plant: Searsia zeyheri Sond. (Anacardiaceae); Crassula species (Crassulaceae).
Conservation status: LC.
Notes
Published as part of Heath, Alan, 2023, Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part III: An integrative taxonomic revision, pp. 11-28 in Metamorphosis 34 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.4314/met.v34i1.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14119211
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Trimen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- aethon
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis aethon (Trimen, 1887) sec. Heath, 2023