Plebejus argiva

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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
Species: Plebejus argiva
Subspecies: P. a. argiva – P. a. kapanovi – P. a. kazakh – P. a. noah

Name

Plebejus argiva Staudinger, 1886

Type locality: Central Asia: Alai.

Syntypes: 6♂, 3♀ MNHU - see Nekrutenko, 2000: 215.

Synonymy

• Lycaena argiva Staudinger, 1886: 204.
• =Plebejus (Lycaeides) argyrognomon (Staudinger); Bridges, 1994: VIII.41.
• Plebejus argiva (Staudinger); 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. Urbana, Illinois. BHL. 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. 
• 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.