Kretania philbyi

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: Kretania
Species: Kretania philbyi

Name

Kretania philbyi (Graves, 1925).

Type locality: Transjordan, Petra.

Lectotype: ♂ BMNH 25.iii.1923, #265426; designated by Bálint, 1999: 52.

Synonymy

• Plebeius sephirus philbyi Graves, 1925: 55, pl.5, f.1-2.
• Plebejus (Plebejides) indica philbyi (Graves); Bridges, 1994: VIII.368.
• Plebejus philbyi (Graves); Bálint & Johnson, 1997: 16; Tshikolovets, 2011: 216.
• Plebejus indica philbyi (Graves); Bálint, 1999: 52.
• Polyommatus (Albulina) pylaon philbyi (Graves); Williams, 2007: 155.
• Kretania philbyi (Graves); Talavera, Lukhtanov, Pierce & Vila, 2013: 187.

References

• Bálint, Z. & Johnson, K. 1997. Reformation of the Polyommatus section with a taxonomic and biogeographic overview (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatini). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 40: 1–68. PDF. Reference page. 
• Bálint, Z.,1999. Annotated list of type specimens of Polyommatus sensu Eliot of the Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). PDF. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 46: 3–82. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Graves, P., 1925. The Rhopalocera and Grypocera of Palestine and Transjordania. Transactions of the Entomological Society London. 1925: 17-126, pls.4-5. 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. 
• Tshikolovets, V.V., 2011. Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean Area Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic. 544pp. ISBN 9788090490000. Reference page.