Yasoda

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Loxurini
Genus: Yasoda
Species: Y. androconifera – Y. pita – Y. pitane – Y. robinsoni – Y. tripunctata
Name

Yasoda Doherty, [1889]: 410 nota, 425.

Type Species: Loxura tripunctata Hewitson, [1863] 1: 26, by monotypy.
Synonyms

Yasoda de Nicéville, 1890: 20, 438. TS Loxura pita Horsfield, [1829]: 122. [Junior Homonym].

Yasoda tripunctata

References

Doherty, W., 1889. On certain Lycaenidae from Lower Tenasserim. J. asiat. Soc. Beng. 58(4): 409–440, 2 pls.
Eliot, J.N. 1973: The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology, 28: 371-505.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Hewitson, W. C., 1863-1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp. Text Plates.
Horsfield, T., 1828-1829. A descriptive catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the museum of the Honourable East India Company. 144 pp., 8 pls. London.

Yasoda is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species in this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Species

Yasoda tripunctata (Hewitson, 1863) - branded yamfly
Yasoda pita (Horsfield, [1829])
Yasoda androconifera Fruhstorfer, 1912
Yasoda robinsoni Holloway, 1986
Yasoda pitane de Nicéville, 1893

External links

"Yasoda Doherty, 1889" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms