Species Ogyris petrina Field, 1999

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• Ogyris subterrestris petrina Field, R.P. 1999. A new species of Ogyris Angas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern arid Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 57(2): 251-259.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

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.

General References

Beaver, E.P., Braby, M.F., Glatz, R.V. & Young, D.A. 2023. Systemtatic revision of the Ogyris idmo (Hewitson, 1862) species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): implications for the conservation management of Australia's most threatened butterflies. Invertebrate Systematics 37: 677–701 [Date published 11 October 2023]

Field, R.P. 1999. A new species of Ogyris Angas (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from southern arid Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 57(2): 251-259

Schmidt, D.J., Grund ,R., Williams, M.R. & Hughes, J.M. 2014. Australian parasitic Ogyris butterflies: east-west divergence of highly-specialized relicts. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 111: 473-484

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