Drupadia theda

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Drupadia theda
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Drupadia theda From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
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Drupadia theda umara
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Drupadia
Species:
D. theda
Binomial name
Drupadia theda
Synonyms
  • Myrina thedaC. & R. Felder, 1862
  • Drupadia nishiyamaiHayashi, 1980
  • Myrina thesmiaHewitson, 1863
  • Biduanda thesmia thesmia f. minaraFruhstorfer, 1912
  • Myrina namusaHewitson, 1863
  • Myrina naeniaHewitson, 1863
  • Drupadia fabriciiMoore, 1884
  • Biduanda imitataDruce, 1895
  • Sithon thaliarchusStaudinger, 1888
  • Sithon thesmia var. unicolorStaudinger, 1889
  • Sithon thesmia var. demialbaStaudinger, 1889
  • Biduanda thesmia batunensisFruhstorfer, 1912
  • Biduanda thesmia umaraFruhstorfer, 1912
  • Biduanda thesmia umara f. depictaFruhstorfer, 1912
  • Biduanda thesmia vanicaFruhstorfer, 1912
  • Biduanda bangkaiensisRibbe, 1926
  • Biduanda inexpectataRibbe, 1926
  • Biduanda renongaCorbet, 1938
  • Marmessus thesmia albicansRiley, [1945]
  • Marmessus thesmia pagiensisRiley, [1945]

Drupadia theda, the dark posy, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1862. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. [2]

Contents

The larvae feed on Barringtonia , Saraca , Bauhinia , Millettia , Garcinia , Lansium , Ixora (including Ixora humilis ), Arytera , Pometia and Lepisanthes species. They are attended by ants of the genus Crematogaster , including Crematogaster diffiformis .

Subspecies

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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.
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