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Species Ogyris petrina Field, 1999

Arid Bronze Azure

Introduction

The taxonomy of this species was investigated by Field (1987, 1990, 1992, 1997), who considered it to be an undescribed taxon closely related to Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862). Field (1999) eventually described and treated this as a subspecies of Ogyris subterrestris Field, 1999 although no justification was provided for this taxonomic arrangement. Field (1999) gave a diagnosis for the species O. subterrestris but not for O. petrina. Subsequently, Beaver et al. (2023) treated O. petrina as a species distinct from O. subterrestris based on substantial morphological differences in adult phenotype and male genitalia, together with the molecular phylogenetic evidence presented by Schmidt et al. (2014) and the large pairwise distance according to mtDNA.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024 PAPILIONOIDEA 09-Jan-2024 MODIFIED Dr Michael Braby
05-Mar-2013 05-Mar-2013 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2012 30-Mar-2012 MODIFIED
29-Sep-2011 ADDED