Chrysoritis amatola, Heath, 2023

Heath, Alan, 2023, Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part III: An integrative taxonomic revision, Metamorphosis 34 (1), pp. 11-28 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.4314/met.v34i1.02
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/744C87AA-E741-D742-FCC3-214F7EF5F82A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Chrysoritis amatola
status

Treatment

violescens Dickson, 1971: 1 . Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: Komsberg Pass, nr Sutherland. MPT: suitable high slopes but shuns the tops of prominences where males of C. beaufortia may occur; C. violescens shares host plant with C. beaufortia . Host ant: Crem. peringueyi .

Taxonomy: In the COI tree, C. violescens is monophyletic (n = 3, all haplotypes identical or nearly identical [see Total Dataset tree]) and derived from C. amatola , rendering the latter paraphyletic. See also C. amatola stat. nov., above. Conservation status: LC.

thysbe mt Clade 1

Chrysoritis williami ( Heath 1997) stat. rev. Poecilmitis View in CoL