Glaucopsyche lygdamus

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: Glaucopsyche
Species: Glaucopsyche lygdamus
Subspecies: G. l. afra –G. l. arizonensis –G. l. columbia –G. l. couperi –G. l. incognitus –G. l. jacki –G. l. kurnakovi –G. l. lygdamus –G. l. mildredae –G. l. nittanyensis –G. l. oro –G. l. palosverdesensis

Name

Glaucopsyche lygdamus Doubleday, 1841.

Type locality: "North America, Georgia".

Typus: repository tbc.

Synonymy

• Polyommatus Lygdamus Doubleday, 1841: 209.
• Lycaena lygdamas (sic) [Doubleday]; Edwards, 1869: 150. Mis-spelling.
• Glaucopsyche lygdarnus (sic) [Doubleday]; Scudder, 1872: 54. Mis-spelling.
• Lycaena lygdamus [Doubleday]; Seitz, [1910]: Pl.144d; Skinner, 1917: 212.
• Glaucopsyche lygdamus lygdamus [Doubleday]; Bridges, 1994: VIII.272, IX.46; Lamas, 2004: 139.

References

• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Doubleday, E., 1841. Description of a New North American Polyommatus. The Entomologist XIV: 209-211. Reference page. 
• Edwards, W.H., 1868-72. The Butterflies of North America. The American Entomological Society. 162 + 52 pages. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page. 
• McDunnough, J.H. 1936. A New Race of Glaucopsyche lygdamus from the White Mountains, Ariz. The Canadian Entomologist 68(5): 113. Reference page. 
• Scudder, S.H., [1872]. A Systematic revision of Some of the American Butterflies With Brief Notes on Those Known to Occur in Essex County, Mass. Annual report of the trustees of the Peabody Academy of Natural Sciences 4: 24–83. Reference page. 
• Seitz, A. 1910–1924. Die Amerikanischen Tagfalter. in Die Grossschmetterlinge der Erde 5: 3–1139, pls 1–194. Alfred Kernan, Stuttgart. Reference page. 
• Skinner, H., 1917. Lycaena lygdamus Doubleday and its Races with a Description of a New One. Entomological News 28(5)ː 212-214. Reference page. 
• Stallings & Turner, 1947. Notes on Kansas Butterflies with Description of a New Subspecies. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 20(3): 93-94, 5 pls. Reference page. 
• Tilden, J. W., 1963: An analysis of the North American species of the genus Callophrys. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 1 (4): 281-300. PDF. Reference page. 

Links

Lepindex; Butterflies of America.