Catopyrops

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Catopyrops
Species: (8):
(Species Groups following Hirowatari, 1992: 33.)
ancyra Species Group

C. ancyra – C. florinda – C. rita – C. zyx
keiria Species Group

C. holtra – C. keiria – C. nebulosa
kokopona Species Group

C. kokopona
Name

Catopyrops Toxopeus, 1929: 230.

Type species: Lycaena ancyra C. Felder, 1860: 457, by monotypy.
Synonymy

Catopyrops Toxopeus, 1929; Eliot, 1973: 444; Hirowatari, 1992: 32.
Catopyrops Toxopeus; 1930: 146 (repetition); Tite, 1963: 105; see Hemming, 1967: 102.

References

Eliot, J.N. 1974. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology 28(6): 371–505. BHL Reference page.
Felder, C. 1860. Lepidopterorum Amboinensium species novae diagnosibus. S-B. Akad. Wiss. Wien 40(11): 447–468. BHL Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page.
Tite, G. E., 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent) 13(4): 67-116, 91 figs, 2.pls.Reference page.
Toxopeus, L.J. 1929. De Riodinidae en Lycaenidae van het eiland Java (Lycaenidae Australasiae VI). Entomologisk tidskrift 72: 215-244. BHL Reference page.
Toxopeus, L. J., 1930. De soorte als functie van Plaats en Tijd, 198 pp., 4 pls. Amsterdam. Reference page.

Catopyrops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.[1][2][3] The range extends from India to the Malay Archipelago and the Solomon Islands.

Species

Catopyrops ancyra (Felder, 1860) – many subspecies
Catopyrops florinda (Butler, 1877)
Catopyrops holtra Parsons, 1986 New Britain
Catopyrops keiria (Druce, 1891)
Catopyrops kokopona (Ribbe, 1899)
Catopyrops nebulosa (Druce, 1892) New Hebrides
Catopyrops rita (Grose-Smith, 1895)
Catopyrops zyx Parsons, 1986 Solomon Islands, New Guinea

References

Corbet, A. Steven (2009). "A Revision of the Malayan Species of the Nacaduba Group of Genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 87 (5): 125–146. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1938.tb00731.x. ISSN 0035-8894.
New, T. R.; Bush, M. B.; Thornton, I. W. B.; Sudarman, H. K. (1988). "The Butterfly Fauna of the Krakatau Islands After a Century of Colonization". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 322 (1211): 445–457. doi:10.1098/rstb.1988.0137. ISSN 0962-8436.

CASSIDY, Alan C. (1990). "On Nacaduba and Allied Genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Sulawesi Region" (PDF). Tyô to Ga. 41 (4): 227–241. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2012-09-13.