Ptox

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Ptox
Species: P. catreus – P. corythus
Name

Ptox Toxopeus, 1928: 181.

Type species: Cyaniris catreus de Nicéville, 1895: 276.
Synonymy

★ Celastrina (Ptox) Toxopeus, 1928: 184.
★ Ptox Toxopeus; Hemming, 1967: 388; Eliot & Kawazoe, 1983: 14; Bridges, 1988: IV.38.
References

Bridges, C.A. 1988. Catalogue of Lycaenidae & Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. Reference page.
de Nicéville, L. 1895. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9(3): 259–321; (4): 366–410, Pls. N–Q. Reference page.
Eliot, J. N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History), London. ISBN 0-565-00860-9 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.
Toxopeus, L. J., 1927-1928. Eine Revision der javanischen, zu Lycaenopsis und verwandten Genera gehörigen Arten. Tijdschr. Ent. 70: 232-302, 1pl., 27 figs; ibid. 71: 179-265, 1 pl., 29 figs. Reference page.

Ptox is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.[1]
Species

Ptox catreus (de Nicéville, 1895)
Ptox corythus (de Nicéville, 1895)

References

"Ptox Toxopeus, 1928" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms