Published March 17, 2023
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Chrysoritis beaufortia subsp. charlesi
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Description
C. beaufortia charlesi (Dickson 1970),
Poecilmitis beaufortia charlesi Dickson, 1970: 93.
Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: “Quagga Fontein, 25 miles N.W of Sutherland”.
Although variable, this is a much darker subspecies, often with an almost black forewing. It occurs on upper montane slopes from its type locality on the Roggeveldberge close to the NC Province and Tankwa Karoo boundary and northward to Kieske Mt. (within 17 km of Hantamsberg, Calvinia).
Host ant and host plant as in nominate subspecies.
Conservation status: LC – Rare.
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 26, DOI: 10.4314/met.v34i1.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14119211
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Dickson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- charlesi
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- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis beaufortia subsp. charlesi (Dickson, 1970) sec. Heath, 2023