Archigenes savitri

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Malay tailed Judy
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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]

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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. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.006 .