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Chrysoritis pelion
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Description
Chrysoritis pelion (Pennington, 1953)
Poecilmitis pelion Pennington, 1953: 106.
Holotype: Ditsong NM. MPT: upper montane; “hollows in rocky outcrops” (Woodhall, 2020).
For notes on juvenile stages see Heath & Kaliszewska (2012: 17). Host ant: Crem. amabilis. Host plant: Thesium sp ..
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 17, DOI: 10.4314/met.v34i1.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14119211
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pennington
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- pelion
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis pelion (Pennington, 1953) sec. Heath, 2023
References
- WOODHALL, S. 2020. Field guide to butterflies of South Africa. Struik Nature 464 pp.