''Tajuria iapyx'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

endemic to the island of

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

. It was described by

William Chapman Hewitson William Chapman Hewitson (9 January 1806, in Newcastle upon Tyne – 28 May 1878, in Oatlands Park, Surrey) was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was particularly devoted to Coleoptera (beetles) and Lepidoptera (butterflies ...

in 1865.

Subspecies

* ''T. i. iapyx'' (Sulawesi) * ''T. i. banggaianus'' Ribbe, 1926 (Banggai)

References

External links

"Butterflies of Southeastern Sulawesi"
''Systematics of Neotropical Butterflies''. University of Florida. Tajuria Butterflies described in 1865 Butterflies of Indonesia Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Lycaenidae-stub