Chrysoritis oreas
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Description
Chrysoritis oreas (Trimen, 1891),
type species of Chrysoritis.
Zeritis oreas Trimen, 1891: 176.
Holotype: Iziko Museum. Type locality: “ Near summit of Niginya ” in Natal. (Coll. J.M. Hutchinson).
Characters: Upper side ground colour yellowish orange, marked with black spots and broad black margins, especially the forewing. Underside with a submarginal series of sagittate markings on both wings; hind wing with dense pattern of browns and orange. Outer margin of forewings noticeably convex in both sexes; hind wing without tail or tornal development in either sex. Forewing with eleven or twelve veins (depicted in Stempffer 1967: 295). Male genitalia shown in Figs 2b & 2c; apophysis on subunci vestigial or absent; aedeagus lacks cornuti. Juvenile stages are illustrated in Fig. 1. Chrysoritis oreas is one of two Chrysoritis species to associate with the ‘droptail’ Myrmicaria (Myrmicinae) ants, the other being C. pyroeis (Trimen).
Conservation status: LC – Rare (2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Trimen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- oreas
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis oreas (Trimen, 1891) sec. Heath, 2023
References
- STEMPFFER, H. 1967. The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) Suppl. 10: 322 pp.