Curetis tagalica

Curetis tagalica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Curetis
Species:	C. tagalica
Binomial name
Curetis tagalica C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862. [1]
Synonyms
Phaedra tagalicaC. & R. Felder, 1862 Phaedra obsoletaC. & R. Felder, 1862 Curetis thetis aurantiacaFruhstorfer, 1900 Curetis insularis izabellaFruhstorfer, 1900 Curetis insularis camotinaFruhstorfer, 1908 Curetis insularis jolonaFruhstorfer, 1908 Anops celebensisC. & R. Felder, [1865] Curetis eosRöber, 1887 Curetis tagalica var. dohertyiChapman, 1915 Curetis celebensis ab. itamusRibbe, 1926 Curetis celebensis kalawaraRibbe, 1926 Curetis thetys var. palawanicaStaudinger, 1889 Curetis insularis heraFruhstorfer, 1900 Curetis insularis jopaFruhstorfer, 1908 Curetis insularis insularis f. edaFruhstorfer, 1908 Curetis tagalica var. talautensisChapman, 1915 Curetis labuanaEvans, 1954 Curetis tagalica vietnamiticaInoue & Kawazoe, 1965

Curetis tagalica, the southern sunbeam, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family. It is found in Southeast Asia (Philippines, Celebes, Palawan, Balabac, Borneo, Sumatra, Javan, Peninsular Malaya and Thailand).It has very light red (more miniate) ground colour in which the costal margin is but narrowly bordered with black, the distal margin almost linearly so. ^[2]

Subspecies

• Curetis tagalica tagalica (Philippines)
• Curetis tagalica celebensis(C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (Sulawesi)
• Curetis tagalica palawanicaStaudinger, 1889 (Palawan, Balabac)
• Curetis tagalica heraFruhstorfer, 1900 (Nias)
• Curetis tagalica jopaFruhstorfer, 1908 (Borneo, Sumatra, Javan, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand)
• Curetis tagalica talautensisChapman, 1915 (Talaud)
• Curetis tagalica brunnescensRibbe, 1926 (Sula, Bangka)
• Curetis tagalica labuanaEvans, 1954 (Labuan, Pulau Tioman, Natuna)
• Curetis tagalica takanamiiSchröder & Treadaway, 1989 (Sibutu)

References

1. Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865–75. Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 under den Befehlen Commadore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Abtheilung. Vienna, 549 pp., 140 pls.
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• "Curetis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 6, 2017.