Bindahara

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribe: Deudorigini
Genus: Bindahara
Species: B. meeki – B. phocides
Name

Bindahara Moore, 1881

Type species: Hesperia phocides Fabricius, (1793).
Synonymy

Bindahara Moore, 1881: 111, pl.42, Figs 3♂, 3a♀.
Stilbon Rothschild & Jordan, 1905: 465. TS: Stilbon meeki Rothschild & Jordan, 1905: 465, by monotypy, synonymy noted in Parsons, 1998: 410.
Rindahara [sic] Kirby, [1882]: 165, (mis-spelling).

References

Kirby, W. F., [1882]. Zoological Record 18 (year 1881) (Ins.): 165. Reference page.
Moore, F. 1881-83. The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Vols. 1, 190pp, pls 1–71. 2, 162pp, pls 72–143. L. Reeve & Co., London. Reference page.
Müller, C.J. & D.P.A. Sands, 1999: A new subspecies of Bindahara meeki Rothschild & Jordan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Australian Entomologist 26 (4): 103–110. Reference page.
Okubo, K., 2007. A new species and a new subpecies of lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera) from the Moluccas, Indonesia. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan. 58 (3): 364-366. Reference page.
Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page.
Rothschild, L.W. & Jordan, K. 1905. On some new Lepidoptera discovered by A. S. Meek in British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologicae 12: 448–478. BHL Reference page.

Bindahara is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.[1] The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.
Species

Bindahara phocides (Fabricius, 1793) - plane
Bindahara arfaki Bethune-Baker, 1913 New Guinea
Bindahara meeki (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905) New Guinea and Halmahera Island

References

"Bindahara Moore, [1881]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms