Kretania zephyrinus

Kretania zephyrinus

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 zephyrinus
Subspecies:
K. z. tatti – K. z. zephyrinus

Name

Kretania zephyrinus (Christoph, [1884]).

Type locality: "Askhabad in den kräuterreichen Schluchten am Fusse des Gebirges".

Syntypes: 1♂, 1♀, MNHU - see Nekrutenko, 2000: 339.

Synonymy

• Lycaena zephyrinus (Stgr) [sic] Christoph, 1884: 102, pl.6, figs 3 a,b.
• Plebejus (Plebejides) zephyrinus (Christoph); Bridges, 1994: VIII.39.
• Kretania zephyrinus (Christoph, [1884]); Talavera et al., 2012: 187.

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. 
• Christoph, H. T., 1884-1889 Lepidoptera aus dem Achal-Tekke-Gebieti [1]. In Romanoff, Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères 1: 93–138, pls 6-8. text, plates. Reference page. 
• Nekrutenko, Y., 2000. A catalogue of the type specimens of Palaearctic Riodinidae and Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) deposited in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Nota lepidopterologica 23 (3/4): 192–352. BHL. 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.