Plebejus maracandicus

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 maracandicus
Subspecies: (2)
P. m. gobianus – P. m. maracandicus

Name

Plebejus maracandicus Erschoff, 1874.

Type locality: Maracanda.

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

• Lycaena argus maracandica var. Erschoff, 1874: 20.
• =Plebejus (Lycaeides) argyrognomon (Berstrasser); Bridges, 1994:VIII.281.
• Plebejus maracandicus [sic] (Erschoff); Talavera et al., 2012: 187.
• Plebejus argyrognomon maracandicus (Erschoff)

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. 
• Erschoff, N. G. 1874. Lepidoptera. In Fedchenko, A. P. Reise in Turkestan (1874-1899). Mémoires de la Société des amis de sciences naturelles, Moscou 11(2): 127 pp., pls 1-6. text, plates. 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. 
• 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.