Polyommatus damone altaicus

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 damone
Species: Polyommatus damone altaicus

Name

Polyommatus damone altaicus (Elwes, 1899).

Type locality: Altai, Tchuja and Bashkaus Valleys.

Holotype: BMNH

Synonymy

• Lycaena damone altaica (var.) Elwes, 1899: 327.
• Lycaena damone var. sibirica Staudinger, 1899.
• Agrodiaetus carmon altaiensis Forster, 1956 Z. wien. ent. Ges. 41: 119
• Polyommatus altaicus (Elwes); Balint & Johnson, 1997.
• Agrodiaetus damone altaicus (Elwes); Zhdanko, 2000: 208.

References

• 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. 
• 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. 
• Dantchenko, A.V. 1997. Notes on the biology and distribution of the damone and damocles species-complexes of the subgenus Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 16: 23–42. PDF Reference page. 
• Elwes, H. 1899. On the Lepidoptera of the Altai Mountains. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1899: 295–368, pls 11–14. Text, plates. Reference page. 
• Vodolazhsky, D.I., Yakovlev, R.V. & Stradomsky, B.V. 2011. [Study of taxonomic status of some specimens of subgenus Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatus) from Western Mongolia based on mtDNA markers.] Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 7(1): 81–82. [In Russian]. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Zhdanko, A.B. in Tuzov, V.K. (ed.), 2000. Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Volume 2; Libytheidae, Danaidae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae. Pensoft, Sofia. Reference page.