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Chrysoritis pyroeis
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Description
Chrysoritis pyroeis (Trimen 1864).
Zeritis pyroeis Trimen 1864: 178.
Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: Cape Province.
C. pyroeis pyroeis
Host ant: Myrmicaria nigra (Mayr 1862). Host plants: Roepera flexuosa; R. sessilifolia; R. morgsana (Zygophyllaceae); Thesium species. Cottrell (1984) hypothesised that the structural colouring and iridescence in C. pyroeis may have evolved independently from that seen in the thysbe clade. Forewing with twelve veins. Larvae have unusually long tubercle casings to their TOs. Juvenile stages illustrated in Clark & Dickson (1971: 191).
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 16, DOI: 10.4314/met.v34i1.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14119211
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHM
- Scientific name authorship
- Trimen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- pyroeis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis pyroeis (Trimen, 1864) sec. Heath, 2023
References
- COTTRELL, C. B. 1984. Aphytophagy in butterflies: its relationship to myrmecophily. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 1 - 57.
- CLARK, G. C. & DICKSON, C. G. C. 1971. Life histories of the South African lycaenid butterflies. Purnell, Cape Town. 272 pp.