Plebejus christophi

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: Plebejus
Subgenus: Lycaeides
Species: Plebejus christophi
Subspecies: P. c. christophi – P. c. micropunctatus – P. c. nanshanica – P. c. transcaucasicus

Name

Plebejus christophi (Staudinger, 1874)

Type locality: Iran: "Shahrud in northern Persia".

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

• Lycaena christophi Staudinger, 1874: 87.
• Lycaena agnata Staudinger, 1889: 50 p19. Syntypes 3♂, 2♀ MNHU, see Nekrutenko, 2012: 203.
• Lycaena bracteata Butler, 1880: 407, pl 39. fig. 4.
• Plebejus christophi (Staudinger); Talavera, et al., 2012: 187.

References

• Butler, A. G., 1880. On a collection of butterflies from Candahar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 403-414, pl. 39. BHL text, plate. Reference page. 
• Churkin, S.V. & V.A. Pletnev, 2012: Taxonomic notes on the Plebeius christophi (Staudinger, 1874) complex with descriptions of new taxa (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 43: 108–113.
• Staudinger, O., 1874. Einige neue Lepidopteren des europaiscben Faunengebiets. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 35: 87–98. BHL Reference page. 
• Staudinger, O., 1886-1889. Centralasiatische Lepidopteren. Entomologische Zeitung 47: 193-215, 225-256; 48:49-102; 49:1-64; 50:16-60. 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. & Churkin, S.V., 2001. A review of the Plebejus christophi complex (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the central asia with the descriptions of new taxa. Helios 2: 50-102. Reference page.