Archigenes savitri

Malay tailed Judy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Genus:	Archigenes
Species:	A. savitri
Binomial name
Archigenes savitri (Guerin, 1843) [1]
Synonyms
Sospita susaHewitson, 1861 Abisara atlasde Nicéville, 1895 Sospita savitri sciurusFruhstorfer, 1904 Sospita savitri strixFruhstorfer, 1904

Archigenes savitri, the Malay tailed Judy, is a small butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Punches and Judies, that is, the family Riodinidae. A 2015 study separated them from the genus Abisara to Archigenes. ^[2]

Subspecies

• A. s. savitri (India)
• A. s. atlasde Nicéville, 1895 (western Java)
• A. s. attenuataTytler, 1915 (Manipur)
• A. s. deniyaFruhstorfer, 1914 (Bangka)
• A. s. periyaFruhstorfer, 1914 (Natuna)
• A. s. sciurus(Fruhstorfer, 1904) (south-eastern Borneo)
• A. s. strix(Fruhstorfer, 1904) (northern Borneo)
• A. s. susaHewitson, 1861 (Sumatra)

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See also

• Riodinidae
• List of butterflies of India (Riodinidae)

References

1. Abisara at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
2. Espeland, Marianne; Hall, Jason P.W.; DeVries, Philip J.; Lees, David C.; Cornwall, Mark; Hsu, Yu-Feng; Wu, Li-Wei; Campbell, Dana L.; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger; Salzman, Shayla; Ruehr, Sophie; Lohman, David J.; Pierce, Naomi E. (2015). "Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 93: 296–306. Bibcode:2015MolPE..93..296E. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.006 . PMID   26265256.