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Chrysoritis braueri
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Description
Chrysoritis braueri (Pennington, 1967)
Poecilmitis braueri Pennington, 1967: 122.
Holotype: Ditsong NM. Type locality: Madeira Hill, Queenstown Dist.
MPT: montane gullies. Host ants: Crem. gallicola. For notes on juvenile stages see Heath et al. (2008: 132). A final instar larva is illustrated in Fig. 19; egg and 1 st instar illustrated in Clark & Dickson (1971: 195).
Conservation status: LC.
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
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pennington
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Chrysoritis
- Species
- braueri
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chrysoritis braueri (Pennington, 1967) sec. Heath, 2023
References
- HEATH, A., MCLEOD, L., KALISZEWSKA, Z. A., FISHER, C. W. S. & CORNWALL, M. 2008. Field notes including a summary of trophic and antassociations for the butterfly genera Chrysoritis Butler, Aloeides Hubner and Thestor Hubner (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from South Africa. Metamorphosis 19 (3): 127 - 148.
- CLARK, G. C. & DICKSON, C. G. C. 1971. Life histories of the South African lycaenid butterflies. Purnell, Cape Town. 272 pp.