Lycaena

Taxonavigation

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: Lycaeninae
Genus: Lycaena
Subgenera: L. (Epidemia) – L. (Phoenicurusia)

Species: L. aeolus – L. alciphron – L. aditya – L. alpherakii – L. athamantis – L. boldenarum – L. candens – L. dispar – L. dorcas – L. editha – L. feredayi – L. helle – L. hippothoe – L. kasyapa – L. margelanica – L. ochimus – L. otbayar – L. ouang – L. phlaeas – L. ratushinskayae – L. rauparaha – L. rubidus – L. salustius – L. thersamon – L. tityrus – L. tseng – L. virgaureae

Name

Lycaena Fabricius, 1807: 285.

Type species: Papilio phlaeas Linnaeus, 1761, by selection of Curtis, 1828: Pl.8 text fig..

Synonymy

(alphabetic)

Alciphronia Koçak, 1992 (Originally described as a subgenus of Heodes Dalman, 1816).
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.
Chalceria Scudder 1876: 125. Type species by original designation: Chrysophanus rubidus Behr 1866: 208.
Chysoptera Zincken 1817: 75. Type species by selection of Tutt, 1906: 131: Papilio virgaureae Linnaeus, 1758: 484.
- Chrysoptera [sic] Tutt, 1906: 131. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Chysoptera, Zincken.
Chrysophanus Hübner 1818: 18. Type species by selection of Riley, 1922: 457: Chrysophanus mopsus Hübner, 1818: 24.
Disparia Verity 1943: 21, 58. Type species by original designation: Papilio dispar Haworth, 1802: 3 et nota.
Epidemia Boisduval 1876: 127. Type species by original designation: Polyommatus epixanthe Boisduval & Leconte, [1833]: 127.
Gaiedes Scudder 1876: 126. Type species by original designation: Chrysophanus dione Scudder, 1869: 330.
Helleia Verity 1943: 20, 48. Type species by original designation: Papilio helle Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775: 181.
Heodes Dalman 1816: 63. Type species by monotypy: Papilio virgaureae Linnaeus, 1758: 484.
Hermelycaena L.D. Miller & F.M. Brown 1979
Hyllolycaena L.D. Miller & F.M. Brown 1979
Loweia Tutt 1906: 314. Type species by original designation: Papilio dorilis Hüfnagel, 1766: 68.
Lycia Sodoffsky 1837: 81. Type species through Section (i) of Article 67 (replacement names): Papilio phlaeas Linnaeus, 1761: 285.
Migonitis Sodoffsky 1837: 82. Type species through Section (i) of Article 67 (replacement names): Papilio phlaeas Linnaeus, 1761: 285.
Mirzakhania Koçak, 1996
Palaeochrysophanus Verity 1943: 23, 64. Type species: Papilio hippothoe Linnaeus, 1761: 274.
Palaeoloweia Verity 1934: Suppl. (13) nota. Type species through Section (i) of Article 67 (replacement names): Papilio dorilis Hüfnagel, 1766: 68.
Phoenicurusia Verity, 1943. Le Farfalle diurn. d'Italia 2: 21, TS: Polyommatus margelanica Staudinger [Polyommatus phoenicurus, Lederer, misid. type]
Rapsidia Sibatani 1974
Rumicia Tutt 1906: 131. Type species by original designation: Papilio phlaeas Linnaeus, 1761: 285.
Sarthusia Verity, 1943. Le Farfalle diurn. d'Italia 2: 20. TS: Polyommatus sarthus Staudinger, 1886: 202.
Tharsalea Scudder 1876: 125. Type species by original designation: Polyommatus arota Boisduval, 1852: 293.
Thersamonia Verity 1919: 28. Type species by original designation: Papilio thersamon Esper, 1784: 176.
Thersamolycaena Verity 1957

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. Reference page.
Churkin, S.V. 2004. Taxonomic notes on Thersamolycaena Verity, 1957 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), with the description of a new species. Helios 5: 75–90. Reference page.
Churkin, S.V. & Kolesnichenko, K.A. 2019. A new species of Lycaena Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Mongolia with a review of genitalia characters of the related taxa. Zootaxa 4555(4): 548–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.4.6. Reference page.
Eckweiler, W. 2004. Lycaena (Phoenicurusia) phoenicurus monalisa ssp. n. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo NF 25(3): 104. Reference page.
Fabricius, J.C. 1807. In Illiger, J. K. W. Magazin für Insektenkunde 6: 279–289. BHL. Reference page.
Huang, R.-X. & Murayama, S.-i. 1992. Butterflies of Xinjiang Province, China. Tyô to Ga 43(1): 1–22. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Korb, S.K. 2012. New data on the systematic and distribution of butterflies of Middle Asia with some notes on its faunagenesis (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Eversmannia, 29-30: 8–14. [In Russian]. PDF. Reference page.
Krupitsky, A.V. 2017. On the type species of the genus Phoenicurusia Verity, 1943 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Lycaeninae). Zootaxa 4306(1): 137–139. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.1.9. Reference page.
Olivier, A., 1999. On the publication dates of "Versuch einer Monographie der europaischen Schmetterlingsarten: Thecla, Plyomattus [sic], Lycaena, Nemeobius. Als Beitrag zur Schmetterlingskunde by Paul Bernhard Gerhard (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 27(4):127- 140.BHL. Reference page.
Smart, P.E. 1975. The international butterfly book. N.Y.: Thomas C. Crowell. 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.
Wakahara, H., Miyamoto, T. & Nakamura, N. 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. Reference page.
Zhdanko, A.B. 1993. Systematics and distribution of lycaenids of the genus Thersamonolycaena. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Entomological Review 72(1): 134–142. Reference page.
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)] Reference page.

Vernacular names

日本語: ベニシジミ属

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