Chrysoritis turneri
Authors/Creators
Description
Chrysoritis turneri (Riley 1938: 241).
Poecilmitis turneri Riley 1938: 241.
Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: Matjiesfontein. Recorded from Komsberg Pass, southwards to the Swartberge and Little Karoo.
Like C. aridus, this species lacks any iridescence or structural colouring. Host ant: Unrecorded. MPT: submontane slopes and prominences.
Taxonomy: C. turneri is monophyletic and well supported in the COI tree (99%), where it is sister to the group comprising C. aridus, C. pan and C. williami; it is sympatric with C. pan at Huis River Pass but both these species are clearly distinguishable on the basis of the presence/absence of iridescence and no intermediates have been observed at this locality across 40+ years of observation.
Conservation status: LC.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHM
- Scientific name authorship
- Riley
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- turneri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis turneri (Riley, 1938) sec. Heath, 2023