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Chrysoritis pyramus
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Chrysoritis pyramus (Pennington 1953).
Poecilmitis pyramus Pennington 1953: 105.
Holotype: Ditsong NM. Type locality: Zwartberg Pass. Host ant: Crem. peringueyi for both subspecies. MPT: upper montane slopes and prominences.
Taxonomy: All subspecies combined form a monophyletic group, with 100% bootstrap support in the COI tree.
C. pyramus pyramus: This nominate subspecies is probably a localised melanistic form of the insect. Late instar illustrated in Fig. 11. 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 22, DOI: 10.4314/met.v34i1.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14119211
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- Scientific name authorship
- Pennington
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- pyramus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis pyramus (Pennington, 1953) sec. Heath, 2023