Published March 17, 2023
| Version v1
Taxonomic treatment
Open
Chrysoritis penningtoni
Authors/Creators
Description
Chrysoritis penningtoni (Riley 1938).
Poecilmitis penningtoni Riley 1938: 239.
Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: “Gaika’s Kop”.
Host plant: Thesium sp. Host ant: no data. MPT: upper montane slopes; “hollows in rocky outcrops” (Woodhall, 2020). This species (n = 2) is sister to all other species in mt clade 4 in the COI tree.
Conservation status: VU.
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 27, DOI: 10.4314/met.v34i1.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14119211
Files
Files
(755 Bytes)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:2449acb5a4f83eb46d4995b9467ca524
|
755 Bytes | Download |
System files
(5.7 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:04558ed12d889a87c429891258d6a9a6
|
5.7 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Riley
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- penningtoni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis penningtoni (Riley, 1938) sec. Heath, 2023
References
- WOODHALL, S. 2020. Field guide to butterflies of South Africa. Struik Nature 464 pp.