Alpherakya devanica

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Alpherakya
Species: Alpherakya devanica
Subspecies: A. d. devanica – A. d. tshikolovetsi – A. d. rupala – A. d. sarta – A. d. vanjica

Name

Alpherakya devanica (Moore, [1875]).

Type locality: Ladak, Dras Valley.

Holotype: BMNH.

Synonymy

• Polyommatus devanica Moore, 1875: 573, pl. 66, fig. 4.
• Polyommatus sarta gooraisica Tytler, 1926: 586, TL: Goorais Valley, India.
• Lycaena devanica (Moore); Grum-Grshimailo, 1890: 384, pl. 8, figs 4a-b (as Lycaena sarta).
• Plebejus devanicus (Moore); Bálint & Johnson, 1997.
• Alpherakya devanica (Moore); Zhdanko, 2000: 177, pl. 72, figs 1-6; Talavera et al, 2012: 187.
• Alpherakya devanica takoi Churkin, 2006 (synonymized by Korb, Bartoňová & Fric, 2019:

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. 
• Charmeux, J.-F., 2009. Description d’Alpherakya devanica vanjica ssp. nova des monts Vanj (Tadjikistan, Nord-Ouest du Badakhshan) (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae). Revue des Lépidoptéristes de France 18 (42): 2-7. Reference page. 
• Grum-Grshimailo, G. E., 1890. Le Pamir et sa faune lédopterologique, in Romanoff, Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères. 4: vii+577 pp, 22 pls. text, plates. Reference page. 
• Korb, S.K., Bartoňová, A. & Fric, Z.F. 2019. Molecular-morphological comparison of the Middle Asiatic taxa of the genus Alpherakya Zhdanko, 1994 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) as an example of the clinal variability within the first subunit of cytochrome oxidase (COI). Eversmannia 58: 11-18. Full article (PDF). most in Russian. Reference page. 
• Moore, F. [1875]. Descriptions of New Asiatic Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1874: 565–579, 2 pls. 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. 
• Tytler, H. C., 1926. Notes on some new and interesting butterflies from India and Burma, Pts. I-II. The journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 31(2): 248-260 2 pls, 31(3) 579-590, 3 pls. Reference page. 
• Zhdanko, A.B. in Tuzov, V.K. (ed.), 2000. Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Volume 2; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae. Pensoft, Sofia. Reference page.