Plebejus caspica

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
Species: Plebejus caspica

Name

Plebejus caspica (Forster, 1936).

Type locality: Southern Urals: "Guberla, Südural".

Holotype: ♂, 15.vi (leg, Rangnow).

Synonymy

• Lycaena argyrognomon caspica Forster, 1936: 74.
• Plebejus (Lycaeides) argyrognomon caspica (Forster); Bridges, 1994: VIII.95.
• Plebejus caspicus [sic] (Forster); Talavera et al., 2012:

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. 
• Forster, W., 1936. Beitrag zur Systematik des Tribus Lycaenini unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Argyronomon- und der Argus-Gruppe. Mitteilungen der Münchner entomologischen Gesellschaft 26: 41–150, pls 3-15. BHL; corrigenda p. 164 [1]. Reference page. 
• Stradomsky, B.V. 2005. [Taxonomy of allied species Plebeius argyrognomon (Bergsträsser, [1779]), P. maracandicus (Erschoff, 1874) and P. caspicus (Forster, 1936) stat. n. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).] Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 1(1): 81–84. [In Russian]. PDF. Reference page. 
• Stradomsky, B.V. & Arzanov, Yu.G. 2006. [Preimaginal stages of Plebeius caspicus (Forster, 1936) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).] Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 2(2): 218. [In Russian]. PDF. 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.