Polyommatus amandus

Male

Polyommatus amandus amandus, ♀♀, Finland.

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
Species: Polyommatus amandus
Subspecies: P. a. abdelaziz – P. a. amandus – P. a. amata – P. a. amurensis – P. a. anthea – P. a. brenda – P. a. brunhilda – P. a. turensis

Name

Polyommatus amandus (Schneider, 1792)

Synonymy

• Papilio (Plebeius Ruralis) amandus Schneider, 1792: 428.
• Papilio icarius Esper, 1789
• Lysandra amanda (Schneider)
• Polyommatus amandus (Schneider)
• Polyommatus (Plebicula) amanda (Schneider)
• Polyommatus (Neolysandra) amandus (Schneider); Korb & Bolshakov, 2011: 95.
• Lycaena amandus libisonis Fruhstorfer, 1911
• Agriades amandus r. bruttia Verity, 1921
• Lysandra amanda lhasana Murayama, 1983
• Lysandra amanda altaishanica Huang & Murayama, 1992; 11, f. 29-30. Synonymy in Korb & Bolshakov, 2011: 95.
  • Type locality: China, Jiadengyua, ltai, 1380 m, grassland in forest zone.
  • Holotype: BLXU. male ♂. VII.1983.

References

• Schneider, D.H. 1792. Lappländische Schmetterlinge. Neustes Magazin für Liebhaber der Entomologie, 1(4), 385–512.
• Huang, R.-X. & Murayama, S.-i. 1992. Butterflies of Xinjiang Province, China. Tyô to Ga 43(1): 1–22. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Korb, S.K. & Bolshakov, L.V. 2011. A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated. Eversmannia, Supplement 2. Full article (PDF) in Russian. 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.