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Chrysoritis violescens
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Description
Chrysoritis violescens (Dickson, 1971)
Poecilmitis violescens Dickson, 1971: 1.
Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: Komsberg Pass, nr Sutherland. MPT:
suitable high slopes but shuns the tops of prominences where males of C. beaufortia may occur; C. violescens shares host plant with C. beaufortia.
Host ant: Crem. peringueyi.
Taxonomy: In the COI tree, C. violescens is monophyletic (n = 3, all haplotypes identical or nearly identical [see Total Dataset tree]) and derived from C. amatola, rendering the latter paraphyletic. See also C. amatola stat. nov., above. Conservation status: LC.
thysbe mt Clade 1
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 17, 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
- violescens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis violescens (Dickson, 1971) sec. Heath, 2023