Polyommatus cyaneus

Taxonavigation

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: Agrodiaetus
Species: Polyommatus cyaneus
Subspecies: (5)
P. c. brandti – P. c. cyaneus – P. c. pseudocyaneus – P. c. damalis – P. c. guzelsu – P. c. xerxes

Name

Polyommatus cyaneus (Staudinger, 1899).

Type locality: Khandynka [Stepanakert, Nagornyi Karabakh, Azerbaijan].

Lectotype: ♂ MNHU , designated by Forster, 1956: 85 - see Nekrutenko, 2000: 232.

Synonymy

• Lycaena damone cyanea (var.) Staudinger, 1899: 142.
• Agrodiaetus kermansis de Lesse, [1963]: 311.
• Agrodiaetus paracyanea de Lesse, 1963: 178.
• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) carmon cyanea (Staudinger); Bridges, 1994: VIII.127.
• Polyommatus cyaneus (Staudinger); Talavera et al., 2012: 186.

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. 
• de Lesse, H., [1963]. Lepidoptères Lycaenidae récoltés en Iran en 1961. Alexanor 2 (8): 305–312. Reference page. 
• de Lesse, H., 1963. Variation chromosomique chez Agrodiaetus carmon H.-S. et A. cyanea Stgr. (Lep. Lycaenidae). Revue française d'Entomologie 30: 177–181, 2 figs. 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. 
• Staudinger, O. 1899. Ueber die Arten und Formen der Lycaena Damon-Gruppe. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 12: 137–155. 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. 
• Lukhtanov, V.A., Shapoval, N.A. & Dantchenko, A.V. 2014. Taxonomic position of several enigmatic Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Central and Eastern Iran: insights from molecular and chromosomal data. Comparative Cytogenetics 8(4): 313–323. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v8i4.8939 Reference page.