Lycaena

Lycaena dispar

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilioniformes

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Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Lycaeninae
Genus: Lycaena
Species: L. alciphron - L. aditya - L. alpherakyi - L. boldenarum - L. candens - L. dispar - L. dorcas - L. editha - L. feredayi - L. helle - L. hippothoe - L. kasyapa - L. ouang - L. pang - L. phlaeas - L. rauparaha - L. rubidus - L. salustius - L. thersamon - L. tityrus - L. tseng - L. virgaureae

Name

Lycaena Fabricius, 1807

Synonyms

• Antipodolycaena Smart, 1975 [as subgenus of Lycaena]. Type species: Lycaena boldenarum White, 1862
• Boldenaria Zhdanko, 1995. Type species: Lycaena boldenarum White, 1862, by original designation.
• Heodes Dalman 1816
• Chysoptera Zincken 1817
• Chrysophanus Hübner 1818
• Lycia Sodovskii 1837
• Migonitis Sodovskii 1837
• Tharsalea Scudder 1876
• Chalceria Scudder 1876
• Epidemia Scudder 1876
• Gaiedes Scudder 1876
• Loweia Tutt 1906
• Rumicia Tutt 1906
• Thersamonia Verity 1919
• Palaeoloweia Verity 1934
• Palaeochrysophanus Verity 1934
• Thersamolycaena Verity 1957
• Helleia Verity 1943
• Disparia Verity 1943
• Palaeochrysophanus Verity 1943
• Rapsidia Sibatani 1974
• Hyllolycaena L.D. Miller & F.M. Brown 1979
• Hermelycaena L.D. Miller & F.M. Brown 1979
• Alciphronia Koçak, 1992 (Originally described as a subgenus of Heodes Dalman, 1816).

References

• Austin, G.T., 1984: A new subspecies of Lycaena editha (Mead) (Lycaenidae) from Nevada. Journal on Research on the Lepidoptera 23 (1): 83-88. Full article: [1].
• Charmeux, J.-F. & J.-M. Desse, 2006: Bilan de huit séjours au Pakistan et description de Cupido nagarensis sp. nova et de Palasa gohlshali sp. nova. Bulletin des Lépidoptéristes Parisiens 14 (35): 81-136.
• Smart, P. 1975: The international butterfly book. N.Y.: Thomas C. Crowell.
• Wakahara, H. , T. Miyamoto & N. Nakamura, 2008: Notes on the butterflies of Laos (III): Discovery and description of a new subspecies of Helleia tseng (Oberthür, 1886) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from central Laos. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 50: 42-49.
• Zhdanko, A.B. 1995: [On the systematics of the genera Lycaena F. and Heliophorus Geyer (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae).] Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 74(3): 652-661. [in Russian, English translation in Entomological review, 75(9): 1-11. (1996)]

Vernacular names

日本語: ベニシジミ属

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