Kretania iranica

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola 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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Kretania
Species: Kretania iranica

Name

Kretania iranica (Forster, W., 1938).

Type locality: Iran, Elburs, Tacht i Suleiman.

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

• Lycaena (Plebejus) eurypilus iranica Forster, 1938: 216, pl.1-2, f.5a, 6a.
• =Kretania eurypilus (Freyer); Korb & Bolshakov, 2011: 88.
• Plebejus (Kretania) eurypilus iranica (Forster); Koçak, 1977: 50.
• Polyommatus iranicus (Forster); Bálint & Johnson, 1997: 22
• Polyommatus (Kretania) eurypilus iranica (Forster); Bálint, 1999, 37.
• Kretania iranica (Forster); Shchurov & Lukhtanov, 2001: 219; Talavera, Lukhtanov, Pierce & Vila, 2013: 187; ten Hagen, 2013: 39.

References

• Bálint, Z. & Johnson, K. 1997. Reformation of the Polyommatus section with a taxonomic and biogeographic overview (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatini). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 40: 1–68. PDF. Reference page. 
• Bálint, Z.,1999. Annotated list of type specimens of Polyommatus sensu Eliot of the Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). PDF. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 46: 3–82. Reference page. 
• Forster, W., 1938. Die Lycaena pylaon-Gruppe. Entomologische Rundschau 55: 213-219, 236-239, 334-337, 361-364, 417-420, 485-490, 2pls. Reference page. 
• Koçak, A.Ö. 1977. Studies on the family Lycaenidae. Atalanta 8(1): 41–62. PDF. Reference page. 
• Korb, S.K. & Bolshakov, L.V. 2011. A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated. Eversmannia, Supplement 2. Full article (PDF) in Russian. Reference page. 
• Shchurov, V.I. & Lukhtanov, V.A. 2001. Notes on the taxonomy of the genus Kretania (Beuret, 1959) with the description of a new species from the Black Sea Coast of Russia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 32(1–2): 217–225. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R., 2013. Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics 29(2): 166–192. Reference page. 
• ten Hagen, W., 2013. Kretania eurypilus (Freyer, [1851]) und verwandte Taxa (Teil 2): Ergebnisse neuer Untersuchungen (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F. 34(1/2): 39-50. (PDF). Reference page.