Paralaxita damajanti, the Malay red harlequin, is an Indomalayan[2] species in the butterfly family Riodinidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1860.[3]

Paralaxita damajanti
Specimens in Museum Wiesbaden
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P. damajanti
Binomial name
Paralaxita damajanti
(Felder and Felder, 1860)[1]
Synonyms
  • Abisara damajanti C. & R. Felder, 1860
  • Laxita damajanti lola de Nicéville, 1894
  • Laxita damajanti batuensis Talbot, 1932
  • Laxita damajanti cyme Fruhstorfer, 1914
  • Laxita damajanti lasica Fruhstorfer, 1914
  • Taxila hewitsoni Röber, 1895

Subspecies edit

  • P. d. damajanti (Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra)
  • P. d. lola (de Nicéville, 1894) (Borneo)
  • P. d. batuensis (Talbot, 1932) (Batu Islands)
  • P. d. cyme (Fruhstorfer, 1914) (Borneo to Sintang)
  • P. d. lasica (Fruhstorfer, 1914) ("Bangka"?)
  • P. d. hewitsoni (Röber, 1895) (southern Borneo)

References edit

  1. ^ C. & R. Felder, 1860 "Lepidoptera nova in paeninsula Malayica collecta diagnosibus instructa" Wiener entomologische Monatschrift 4 (12): 394-402
  2. ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. ^ Savela, Markku. "Paralaxita damajanti (C. & R. Felder, 1860)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 1, 2017.