Chrysoritis nigricans
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Description
Chrysoritis nigricans (Aurivillius 1924).
Phasis thysbe var. nigricans Aurivillius 1924: 430.
Holotype: Iziko Museum. Type locality: Muizen Mts. (the three samples here were collected at low elevation at Pella Mission, Mamre). Host ant: Crem. alulai.
MPT: sloping ground, mostly montane but low elevation at Pella, Mamre, including samples in this study. Juvenile stages of C. nigricans are illustrated in Clark & Dickson 1971: 199 and here in Fig. 18.
Note that the pupae are a pale yellowish; this colour is also seen in C. zwartbergae and some (but not all) C. uranus pupae (A. Heath, pers. obs.); all others in the thysbe clade have been brown to olive-brown. Morphologically similar to C. zwartbergae but consistent differences are apparent (description in C. zwartbergae).
Taxonomy: In the COI tree, this species is monophyletic and appears as sister to C. adonis, another montane species.
Conservation status: LC.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Aurivillius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- nigricans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis nigricans (Aurivillius, 1924) sec. Heath, 2023
References
- CLARK, G. C. & DICKSON, C. G. C. 1971. Life histories of the South African lycaenid butterflies. Purnell, Cape Town. 272 pp.