Jamides allectus is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1894. It is endemic to New Guinea (West Irian and New Ireland).[2]
Jamides allectus | |
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Jamides allectus sarmice Holotype. From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Jamides |
Species: | J. allectus
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Binomial name | |
Jamides allectus (Grose-Smith, 1894).[1]
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Synonyms | |
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Subspecies
edit- J. a. allectus (Irian Jaya)
- J. a. jobiensis Tite, 1960 (Jobi)
- J. a. sarmice (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (New Ireland)
References
edit- ^ Grose-Smith, 1894 Descriptions of nine new species of butterflies, from the Sattelberg, near Finsch Hafen, German New Guinea, in the collections of the Honourable Walter Rothschild and H. Grose Smith, captured by Captains Cayley Webster and Cotton Novitates Zoologicae 1 (3): 585-590
- ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
External links
editWikispecies has information related to Jamides allectus.
- Jamides Hübner, [1819] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 3, 2017.