Strymon bubastus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Strymon
Species:
S. bubastus
Binomial name
Strymon bubastus
(Stoll, 1780)
Synonyms
  • Papilio bubastus Stoll, [1780]
  • Papilio minereus Fabricius, 1787
  • Thecla salona Hewitson, 1868
  • Thecla sapota Hewitson, 1877
  • Thecla cestri peruensis Dufrane, 1939
  • Strymon vividus Le Crom & Johnson, 1997
  • Strymon sapota
  • Thecla bubastus ponce Comstock & Huntington, 1943
  • Thecla ponce Comstock & Huntington, 1943

Strymon bubastus, the disjunct scrub-hairstreak or Bubastus hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1780. It is found in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Dominica and Grenada.[1]

Host plants include Phyla nodiflora and Waltheria ovata in Chile.[2]

Subspecies

Strymon Bubastus Bubastus found in Venezuela
Strymon Bubastus Bubastus found in Venezuela
  • Strymon bubastus bubastus
  • Strymon bubastus ponce (Comstock & Huntington, 1943) (Antilles)

References

  1. ↑ "Strymon Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ↑ Vargas, Héctor A.; Vargas-Ortiz, Marcelo; Bobadilla, Dante (June 2016). "Larval Polychromatism in the Neotropical Hairstreak Strymon bubastus (Stoll) (Lycaenidae, Theclinae, Eumaeini) Associated with Two Newly Documented Host Plants in the Atacama Desert". The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 70 (2): 153–157. doi:10.18473/lepi.70i2.a11. ISSN 0024-0966.


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