Polyommatus damonides elbursicus

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 damonides
Subspecies: Polyommatus damonides elbursicus

Name

Polyommatus damonides elbursicus (Forster, 1956)

Type locality: Persia sept. (Iran), Eiburs mts. c, Kendevan-Paß, 2800—3000 m

Holotype: Coll. Pfeiffer. male ♂. 22.-27.VII.1936. leg. Pfeiffer

Synonyms

• Agrodiaetus transcaspica elbursica Forster, 1956: 74, pl. 10-11, f. 3-4.
• Agrodiaetus elbursica (Forster)
• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) elbursicus (Forster); Olivier et al., 1999: 12.
• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) elbursicus elbursicus (Forster); Eckweiler, 2002: 78.
• Polyommatus elbursicus (Forster); Talavera et al., 2013: 186.
• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damonides elbursicus (Forster); Lukhtanov & Dantchenko, 2017: 788.

References

• Forster, W. 1956. Bausteine zur Kenntnis der Gattung Agrodiaetus Scudd. (Lep. Lycaen.) I. Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 41: 42-61; 70-89; 118-127. Reference page. 
• Olivier, A., Puplesiene, J., van der Poorten, D., De Prins, W. & Wiemers, M. 1999. Revision of some taxa of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) transcaspicus group with description of a new species from Central Anatolia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 27(1): 1–24. BHL PDF. Reference page. 
• Eckweiler, W. 2002. Zwei neue Unterarten des Subgenus Agrodiaetus Hübner, 1822 aus Nordwest–Iran (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Gattung Polyommatus). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo NF 23(1-2): 77–79. PDF. 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. & Dantchenko, A.V. 2017. A new butterfly species from south Russia revealed through chromosomal and molecular analysis of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damonides complex (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative cytogenetics 11(4): 769–795. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i4.20072 . Reference page.