Glaucopsyche xerces

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

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Glaucopsyche xerces (Boisduval, 1852)

Type locality: California.

Typus: LT ♂, ♀, USNM, images.

Lycaena xerces Boisduval, 1852: 296.
Lycaena antiacis Boisduval, 1852: 18.
Lycaena xerxes (sic) Boisduval; Boisduval, 1860: 16. Mis-spelling.
Lycaena behrii Edwards, 1862: 224.
Lycaena mertila Edwards, 1866: 206.
Lycaena polyphemus Boisduval, 1869: 49.
Glaucopsyche xerces var. intermedia Chermock, 1929: 20. "Lone Mountain, San Francisco, Calif."
Glaucopsyche xerces xerces [Boisduval]; Bridges, 1994: VIII.496, IX.46.

Boisduval, J.-A. 1852. Lepidoptères de la Californie. Annales de la Société entomologique de France 10(2): 275–324. BHL. Reference page.
Boisduval, J.-A. 1869. Lépidopères de la Californie. Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 12: 5–28, 37–94. BHL1; BHL2. Reference page.
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.
Chermock, F.H., 1929. Notes on North American Lepidoptera. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, 24: 20-21. Reference page.
Edwards, W.H., 1862. Descriptions of certain species of diurnal Lepidoptera found within the limits of the United States and British America. 3. Proc. Philad. Acad. Sci. 14: 221–226. Reference page.
Edwards, W.H., 1866. Descriptions of certain species of diurnal Lepidoptera found within the limits of the United States and British America, 5. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia 6(4): 200-208. Reference page.