Megisba

Megisba Moore, [1881]

Megisba Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 71; TS: Megisba thwaitesi Moore
Pathalia Moore, 1884; J. asiat. Soc. Bengal 53 Pt.II (1): 21; TS: Pathalia albidisca Moore

Megisba; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Megisba (Section Lycaenopsis); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 449
Megisba (Lycaenidae); Moore, [1881], Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 71
Megisba (Lycaenopsina); Stradomsky, 2016, Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1): 151
Megisba (Polyommatini); Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 158
Pathalia; [CoL] ; [NHM-BMW]
Pathalia (Section Lycaenopsis); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 449

Megisba strongyle (Felder, 1860)

-. See [maps]

Lycaena strongyle Felder, 1860; Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 40 (11): 459

Megisba strongyle; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [Don Herbison-Evans]

M. s. strongyle Aru, Kai, Buru, Ambon, Serang, Obi

Megisba malaya strongyle; Fruhstorfer, 1918, Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 7; [BAUR], 377 (text)

M. s. nigra (Miskin, 1890) Australia (Cape York - Cairns)

Lycaena nigra Miskin, 1890; Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 5 (1): 36 (preocc. Lycaena orion var. nigra Gerhard, 1882); TL: Cardwell
- = Megisba strongyle miskinigra; Lamas, 2008, Zootaxa 1848: 49
Megisba strongyle miskinigra Lamas, 2008; Zootaxa 1848: 49 (repl. Lycaena nigra Miskin, 1890)

Megisba malaya nigra; Fruhstorfer, 1918, Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 8; [BAUR], 377 (text)
Megisba strongyle nigra; Dunn & Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (3): 423

M. s. monacha Grose-Smith, 1894 West Irian - Papua

Megisba monacha Grose-Smith, 1894; Novit. zool. 1 (3): 571

Megisba malaya monacha; Fruhstorfer, 1918, Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 8; [BAUR], 377
Megisba monacha; [CoL]

M. s. orientalis (Joicey & Talbot, 1916) Biak

Megisba orientalis Joicey & Talbot, 1916; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1916 (1): 75, pl. 5, f. 3 ♂

Megisba malaya orientalis; [BAUR], 377 (text)
Megisba orientalis; [CoL]

M. s. strongyloides Fruhstorfer, 1918 Bachan?, Halmahera

Megisba malaya strongyloides Fruhstorfer, 1918; Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 8; TL: Halmaheira

Megisba malaya strongyloides; [BAUR], 377 (text); [CoL]

M. s. clerica Fruhstorfer, 1918 Trobriand I.

Megisba malaya clerica Fruhstorfer, 1918; Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 8; TL: Kiriwina

Megisba malaya clerica; [BAUR], 377 (text); [CoL]

M. s. caudata Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983 New Guinea

Megisba strongyle caudata Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983; Butts. Lycaenopsis group: 63, f. 232, 256; TL: Papua New Guinea, New Britain, Rabaul

Megisba strongyle caudata; [CoL]

M. s. aenigma Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983 Tanimber

Megisba strongyle aenigma Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983; Butts. Lycaenopsis group: 63, f. 233, 257; TL: Tanimber, Timor Laut

Megisba strongyle aenigma; [CoL]

Megisba malaya (Horsfield, [1828])

Ceylon, S.India - Bengal, Kumaon - Assam, Burma, Malaya - New Guinea. See [maps] Malayan

Lycaena malaya Horsfield, [1828]; Descr. Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1): 70; TL: Java

Megisba malaya; Druce, 1895, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (3): 571; Fruhstorfer, 1918, Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 6; [BIR], 272; [BMP]; [BOW]: pl. 178, f. 27; [BOR], 650; [MRS], 682; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 159; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM]

512x341 (~23Kb) underside India: Guwahati, 17.11.2005, Photo © Kedar Tokekar

M. m. malaya

Megisba malaya malaya; Fruhstorfer, 1918, Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 7; [iNaturalist]

M. m. thwaitesi (Moore, [1881]) Ceylon, S.India - Bengal, Sikkim

Megisba thwaitesi Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 71, pl. 34, f. 3, 3a-b; TL: Ceylon
Megisba hampsoni de Nicéville, 1890; Butts India Burmah Ceylon 3: 61 (Moore, MS)
- = Megisba thwaitesi; Bridges, 1994, Cat. Riodinidae & Lycaenidae: (VIII) 200 (PS)

Megisba hampsoni; [CoL]
Megisba malaya thwaitesi; Fruhstorfer, 1918, Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 6; [iNaturalist]
Megisba malaya r. thwaitesi; [BIR], 272
Megisba thwaitesi; [CoL]

M. m. sikkima Moore, 1884 Kumaon - Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Bengal, S.Yunnan, Sulawesi

Megisba sikkima Moore, 1884; J. asiat. Soc. Bengal 53 Pt.II (1): 21; TL: Sikkim
Pathalia albidisca Moore, 1884; J. asiat. Soc. Bengal 53 Pt.II (1): 21; TL: Chittagong; Kurdah; Orissa; NW.Himalaya
- = ; Cassidy, 1995, Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2): 46
Megisba malaya volubilis Fruhstorfer, 1918; Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 6; TL: Formosa
- = ; Cassidy, 1995, Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2): 46
Megisba malaya velina Fruhstorfer, 1918; Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 6; TL: Sumatra
- = ; Cassidy, 1995, Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2): 46
Megisba malaya infumata Fruhstorfer, 1918; Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 7; TL: Sulawesi
- = ; Cassidy, 1995, Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2): 46
Megisba malaya rosanna Fruhstorfer, 1918; Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 6; TL: Philippines
- = ; Cassidy, 1995, Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2): 46
Megisba malaya var. iwasakii Matsumura, 1919; Thous. Ins. Japan. Addit. 3: 643, pl. 49, f. 24; TL: Japan
- = ; Cassidy, 1995, Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2): 46
Megisba malaya malaya f. siebersi Toxopeus, 1927; Tijdschr. Ent. 70 (3/4): 283; TL: Java
- = ; Cassidy, 1995, Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2): 46

Megisba malaya infumata; [CoL]
Megisba malaya iwasakii; [CoL]
Megisba malaya rosanna; [CoL]
Megisba malaya sikkima; Fruhstorfer, 1918, Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 6; [MRS], 682; [BMP]: 238, pl. 34, f. 46-48; Cassidy, 1995, Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2): 46; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 159; [iNaturalist] ; [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Megisba malaya velina; [CoL]
Megisba malaya volubilis; [CoL]
Megisba malaya r. sikkima; [BIR], 272
Pathalia albifusca; [CoL]
Pathalia sikkima; [CoL]

M. m. insulicola (Rothschild, 1915) Manam I.

Lycaenopsis insulicola Rothschild, 1915; Novit. Zool. 22 (3): 388; TL: Vulcan Island

Lycaenopsis insulicola; Fruhstorfer, 1917, Archiv Naturg. 82 A (1): 18; [CoL]
Megisba malaya insulicola; [BAUR], 377 (text)

M. m. presbyter Fruhstorfer, 1918 Nicobar, Andaman

Megisba malaya presbyter Fruhstorfer, 1918; Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12): 6; TL: Nicobar; Andamans

Megisba malaya presbyter; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

M. m. anomala Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983 Timor

Megisba malaya anomala Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983; Butts. Lycaenopsis group: 60; TL: Timor, Oinainisa

Megisba malaya anomala; [CoL]

References:

[BHL] The
Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!
[CEB]
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin; issues (PDF)
[CiNii]
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[Don Herbison-Evans] and Stella A. Crossley
Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths
[Kedar Tokekar]
India
[LAMAS-2005] Gerardo Lamas
Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

Some related literature:

Bridges, 1994
Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group, and species-group names of the Riodinidae and Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World Cat. Riodinidae & Lycaenidae : (I) 1-3, (II) 1, (III) 1-3, (IV) 1-48, (V) 1-12, (VI) 1-26, (VII) 1-7, (VIII) 1-502, (IX) 1-135, (X) 1-172, (XI) 1-134, (XII) 1-50, (XIII) 1-16, (A1) 1, (A2) 1-5, (A3) 1
Cassidy, 1995
On the Lycaenopsis Group of Genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) of the Sulawesi Region Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 46 (2) : 45-62
[MRS]; Chou, 1994
Monografia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium 1-2 Mon. Rhop. Sinesium : 1-854
[BMP]; Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992
The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Fourth Edition revised by J. N. Eliot with plates by Bernard D'Abrera Butterflies Malay Peninsula (4th edn) : 1-595, pl. 1-69
[BAUR]; D'Abrera, 1977
Butterflies of the Australian Region (2nd edn) Butts. Aust. Region: 1-416
[BOR]; D'Abrera, 1982-1986
Butterflies of the Oriental Region I-III
Druce, 1895
A Monograph of the Bornean Lycaenidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (3) : 556-627, pl. 31-34
Dunn & Dunn, 1991
Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy Review Austr. Butts. (1): 1-196, (2): 197-335, (3): 336-512, (4): 513-660
Eliot, 1973
The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505 (162fgs), pl. 1-6
Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983
Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History) Butts. Lycaenopsis group: 309 pp., 560 figs
Felder, 1860
Lepidopterorum Amboienensium species novae diagnosibus Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien 40 (11): 448-462
Fruhstorfer, 1917
Revision der Lycaenidengattung Lycaenopsis auf Grund morphologischer Vergleiche der Klammerorgane Archiv Naturg. 82 A (1) : 1-42, 2 pls. (January)
Fruhstorfer, 1918
Altes und Neues über Megisba malaya Archiv Naturg. 82 A (12) : 4-8 (November)
Grose-Smith, 1894
An Account of a Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera from New Guinea (Parts I-III) - made by Mr. W. Doherty at Humboldt Bay, Dutch New Guinea, and in neighbouring islands, in the Museum of the honourable Walter Rothschild at Tring, with descriptions of new species Novit. zool. 1 (2): 331-365, (2): 543-551, (3): 571-584
Horsfield, [1828]
Descriptive Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects contained in the Museum of the Horourable East-India Company, illustrated by coloured figures of new species Descr. Cat. lep. Ins. Mus. East India Coy (1): 1-80, pl. 1-4 (1828), (2): 81-144, pl. 5-8, (expl.) [1-4] (1829)
Joicey & Talbot, 1916
New Lepidoptera from the Schouten Islands, with description of a new Tineid Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1916 (1) : 65-83, pl. 3-6, : 84 (Durrant)
Lamas, 2008
Twelve new species-group replacement names and further nomenclatural notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) Zootaxa 1848 : 47-56
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
de Nicéville in Marshall & de Nicéville, 1890
The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon, a descriptive Handbook of all the known Species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that Region, with Notices of allied Species occurring in the neighbouring Countries along the Border, with numerous Illustrations. Vol. 3 Butts India Burmah Ceylon 3 : 1-503, pl. 25-29
Matsumura, 1919
Thousand Insects of Japan. Additamenta 3 [Shin Nihon senchu zukai] Thous. Ins. Japan. Addit. 3 : 475-742, pl. 26-53
Miskin, 1890
Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Australian Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera), principally Lycaenidae Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 5 (1) : 29-43
Moore, [1881]
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Lepid. Ceylon 1 (1): 1-40, pl. 1-18 (Dec 1880), (2): 41-80, pl. 19-36 (Jan 1881), (3): 81-136, pl. 37-54 (Jun 1881), (4): 137-190, pl. 55-71 (Dec 1881)
Moore, 1884
Descriptions of some new Asiatic diurnal Lepidoptera; chiefly from specimens contained in the Indian Museum, Calcutta J. asiat. Soc. Bengal 53 Pt.II (1) : 16-52
Rothschild, 1915
On the Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum sent by Mr. A. S. Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier and Vulcan Islands Novit. Zool. 22 (2): 192-208, (3): 387-402
Stradomsky, 2016
A molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Polyommatinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1) : 145-156
Toxopeus, 1927
Eine Revision der javanischen, zu Lycaenopsis Felder und verwandten Genera gehörigen Arten. (Mit Einführung von 6 neuen Genera, Beschreibung von 2 neuen Species un 5 neuen Subspecies). Lycaenidae Australasiae II Tijdschr. Ent. 70 (3/4) : 232-302, pl. 1, 27 text figs.
Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003
The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island faunda Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 3-268, pl. 1-16
[BIR]; Wynter-Blyth, 1957
Butterflies of the Indian Region (1982 Reprint)

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