Kretania alcedo

Kretania alcedo ♂,♀ from original description.

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: Kretania
Species: Kretania alcedo

Name

Kretania alcedo (Christoph, 1876).

Type locality: "Schahkuh" [NE.Iran].

Syntypes: ♂,♀ BMNH; Lectotype ♀ designated by Bálint, 1999.

Synonymy

• Lycaena alcedo Christoph, 1877: 233, pl.5 figs 3,4; Bálint, 1999: 9.
• Lycaena alcedo noah (var.) Herz, 1900: 442. TL: Uzbekistan, Zeravshan River.
• Vacciniina alcedo (Christoph); Rose, 1977: 62; Zhdanko et el 2000: 179, pl.68, f.51-53.
• Vacciniina alcedo occidentissima Rose, 1977: 62.
• Polyommatus alcedo (Christoph); Lewis, 1974: pl.206, f.24.
• Albulina alcedo (Christoph); Bálint & Johnson, 1997: 18.
• Kretania alcedo (Christoph); Korb & Bolshakov, 2011: 88; Talavera, Lukhtanov, Pierce & Vila, 2012: 187.

References

• Bálint, Z.,1999. Annotated list of type specimens of Polyommatus sensu Eliot of the Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). PDF. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 46: 3–82. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Christoph, H.T., 1876-1877. Sammelergebenisse aus Nordpersien, Krasnowodsk in Turkmenien und dem Dhagestan. Horae Societas entomologicae ross. [Moscow] 12: 181–196 (1876); 197-299 (1877), Pls 5-8. BHL1, BHL2, plates. Reference page. 
• Eckweiler, W. 1998. Neue Taxa der Gattungen Polyommatus Latreille, 1804 und Plebeius Kluk, 1780 aus dem Iran (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 19(3/4): 219–238. PDF. Reference page. 
• Herz, A. O., 1900. Meine Lepidopteren - Ausbeute im nördlichen Buchara und im Seravaschan - Gebiete im Jahre 1892. Annuarie du musée zoologique... St Pétersbourg 5(4): 428–457. BHL. Reference page. 
• Korb, S.K. & Bolshakov, L.V. 2011. A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated. Eversmannia, Supplement 2. Full article (PDF) in Russian. Reference page. 
• Lewis, H.L. 1974. Butterflies of the World, xvi + 312pp., 208 pls. Harrap, London. ISBN 0-245-52097-X; Open Library. Reference page. 
• Rose, K. 1977. Vacciniina alcedo in Zentralanatolien, nebst Beschreibung einer neuen Unterart (Lep., Lycaenidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 87(6): 62–65. 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. 
• 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.