Laxita thuisto

Laxita thuisto
	Female ventral
	Specimens in Museum Wiesbaden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Genus:	Laxita
Species:	L. thuisto
Binomial name
	Laxita thuisto; (Hewitson, 1861)
Synonyms
	Taxila thuisto Hewitson, 1861; Taxila thuisto eutyches Fruhstorfer, 1912; Taxila thuisto ephorus Fruhstorfer, 1904; Taxila thuisto melanotica Riley, 1945; Taxila thuisto therikles Fruhstorfer, 1912;

Laxita thuisto is an Indomalayan^[2] species in the butterfly family Riodinidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861.

Subspecies

L. t. thuisto (Peninsular Burma, Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore)
L. t. eutyches (Fruhstorfer, 1912) (southern Borneo, Pulau Laut, Palawan)
L. t. ephorus (Fruhstorfer, 1904) (northern Borneo)
L. t. melanotica (Riley, 1945) (Mentawai)
L. t. sawaja (Fruhstorfer, [1914]) (Burma, Mergui, Thailand)
L. t. therikles (Fruhstorfer, 1912) (Sumatra, Bangka)
L. t. esther Doubleday (Java)^[3]

^ Hewitson, 1861. Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
^ Savela, Markku. "Laxita thuisto (Hewitson, 1861)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

This Riodinidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.