Polyommatus icarus

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: Polyommatus
Species: Polyommatus icarus
Subspecies: P. i. icarus –P. i. persica –P. i. turanicus

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Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)

Type locality: Germany, Berlin.

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

Papilio Plebejus Ruralis icarus Rottemburg, 1775: 21.
Polyommatus andronicus Coutsis & Ghavalas, 1995: 147. Type locality: Greece, Macedonia, Dráma District, Mt. Falakró, 1700 m. Holotype: Coll. Coutsis ♂. 10.VII.1993. legit J.G. Coutsis. Synonymy in Vodolazhsky, Wiemers & Stradomsky, 2009: 115.
Polyommatus neglectus Stradomsky & Arzanov, 1999. Synonymy in Bolshakov, 2005: 7. TL: Russia, Rostov region. HT ♂: ZISP 21.VIII.1999.

References

Rottemburg, S.A. von. 1775. Anmerkungen zu den Hufnagelischen Tabellen der Schmetterlinge. Erste Abtheilung. Der Naturforscher 6: 1–34. Online. Reference page.
Coutsis, J.G. & Ghavalas, N. 1995. Notes on Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775) in Greece and description of a new Polyommatus Latreille, 1804 from northern Greece (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 23(3): 145–156. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Stradomsky, B.V. & Arzanov, Yu.G. 1999. [Polyommatus elena sp. n. and Polyommatus neglectus sp. n. — new taxones of the family Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera)]. The Kharkov Entomological Society Gazette 7(2): 17–21. [In Russian]. PDF. Reference page.
Kolev, Z. 2005. New data on the taxonomic status and distribution of Polyommatus andronicus Coutsis & Ghavalas, 1995 (Lycaenidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 28(1): 35–48. PDF. Reference page.
Bolshakov, L.V. 2005. [About two South-Russian taxa from the Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775) group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)]. Eversmannia 2: 6–8. [In Russian]. PDF. Reference page.
Vodolazhsky, D.I., Wiemers, M. & Stradomsky, B.V. 2009. A comparative analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences in blue butterflies of subgenus Polyommatus (s. str.) Latreille, 1804 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 5(1): 115–120. 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.
Dincă, V., Dapporto, L. & Vila, R. 2011. A combined genetic‐morphometric analysis unravels the complex biogeographical history of Polyommatus icarus and Polyommatus celina Common Blue butterflies. Molecular Ecology 20(18): 3921–3935. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05223.x . Reference page.

Vernacular names

беларуская: Блакітніца ікар