Plebejus melissa

Plebejus melissa

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: Plebejus
Subgenus: Lycaeides
Species: Plebejus melissa
Subspecies: (4)
P. m. annetta – P. m. melissa – P. m. mexicana – P. m. paradoxa

Name

Plebejus melissa Edwards, W. H., 1873.

Type locality: USA, Colorado, Lake County, La Plata Peak, vicinity of Twin Lakes.

Holotype: CM, Pittsburgh.

Synonymy

• Lycaena melissa Edwards, 1873: 346.
• Rusticus melissa (Edwards); Dyar, [1903]: 44.
• Lycaeides melissa pseudosamuelis Nabokov, 1949: 529; synonymy by Lamas, 2004: 140.
• Lycaeides melissa (Edwards); Lewis, 1974: pl. 19, figs 35-36.
• Plebejus melissa (Edwards); Talavera et al., 2012: 187.

References

• Dyar, H. G. [1903]. A List of North American Lepidoptera and Key to the Literature of this Order of Insects. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 52: i–xix, 1–723. BHL. Reference page. 
• Edwards, W.H., 1873. Descriptions of diurnal Lepidoptera found within the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4(4): 343–348. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page. 
• Lewis, H. L., 1974. Butterflies of the World xvi + 104pp., 208 pls. Harrap, London.
• Nabokov, V., 1949. The Nearctic members of the genus Lycaeides Hübner (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. 101 (4): 479–541, 9 pls. 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. 

Links

• Funet.
• University Alberta, Canada.
• Butterflies of America.

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