Thermozephyrus

Thermozephyrus
Specimen from Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Theclini
Genus:	Thermozephyrus Inomata & Itagaki, 1986
Species:	T. ataxus
Binomial name
Thermozephyrus ataxus (Westwood, 1851) [1] [2]
Synonyms
Dipsas ataxusWestwood, 1851 [3] Thecla ataxus Dipsas katuraHewitson, 1865 Zephyrus zullaTytler, 1915 Zephyrus ataxus var. kirishimaensisOkajima, 1922 Chrysozephyrus lingiOkano & Okura, 1969 Chrysozephyrus subnivalisKawazoe & Wakabayashi, 1969 Chrysozephyrus ataxusWestwood, [1851]

Thermozephyrus ataxus, the wonderful hairstreak, ^[4] is a small butterfly found from India to Japan that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.

Female

Taxonomy

The butterfly was previously classified as Thecla ataxus Doubleday. ^[5] It is also presently classified as Chrysozephyrus ataxus. ^[6]

Range

The species occurs in Murree (Pakistan), and in India from Jammu and Kashmir to Kumaon and in the Naga Hills. ^[5] In general, the range extends from the western Himalayas to China and Japan. ^[7]

Subspecies

• Thermozephyrus ataxus ataxus (north-western India to Upper Burma)
• Thermozephyrus ataxus kirishimaensis(Okajima, 1922) (Japan)
• Thermozephyrus ataxus lingi(Okano & Okura, 1969) (Taiwan)
• Thermozephyrus ataxus motohiroi(Fujioka, 2001)
• Thermozephyrus ataxus yakushimaensis(Yazaki, 1924) (Japan)
• Thermozephyrus ataxus tsukiyamai(Fujioka, 2001) (Myanmar)
• Thermozephyrus ataxus zulla(Tytler, 1915) (Assam, western China)

Cited references

1. "Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the world". 1994.
2. "Thermozephyrus".
3. "Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the world". 1994.
4. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Chrysozephyrus ataxus​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
5. Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 250, ser no H41.4.
6. Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Page on genus Chrysozephyrus.
7. Thermozephyrus at funet

See also

• Lycaenidae
• List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

• Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
• "Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN   978-8170192329.