Polyommatus aedon

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: Polyommatus
Subgenus: Sublysandra
Species: Polyommatus aedon

Name

Polyommatus aedon (Christoph, 1877).

Type locality: Kurdistan - "Ich fing überhaupt nur 3 ♂♂ davon bei Schahkuh im Juli"

Syntype: ♂ MNHU: "Schahkuh/Chr.[istoph]/Origin". See Nekrutenko, 2000: 200.

Synonymy

• Lycaena aedon Christoph, 1877: 326, pl. 5, fig. 8.
• Polyommatus (Sublysandra) aedon (Christoph); Bridges, 1994: VIII.6.
• Polyommatus aedon (Christoph); Talavera et al., 2012: 185.

References

• Christoph, H.T., 1876-1877. Sammelergebenisse aus Nordpersien, Krasnowodsk in Turkmenien und dem Dhagestan. Horae Societas entomologicae ross. [Moscow] 12: 181–196 (1876); 197-299 (1877), Pls 5-8. BHL1, BHL2, plates. 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. 
• 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.