Polyommatus orphicus

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 orphicus
Subspecies: P. o. orphicus – P. o. eleniae

Name

Polyommatus orphicus Kolev, 2005

Type locality: Bulgaria, Rhodopi Mts., open dry rocky slopes above Hvoyna village, 800-950 m.

Holotype: Coll. Kolev. male ♂. 7.VII.1999. leg. Z. Kolev.

Synonymy

• Polyommatus dantchenkoi orphicus Kolev, 2005: 26.
• Polyommatus orphicus Kolev; Talavera et al., 2013: 186; Vishnevskaya et al., 2016: 48.

References

• Kolev, Z. 2005. Polyommatus dantchenkoi (Lukhtanov & Wiemers, 2003) tentatively identified as new to Europe, with a description of a new taxon from the Balkan Peninsula (Lycaenidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 28(1): 25–34. PDF. Reference page. 
• Lafranchis, T., Gil-T., F. & Lafranchis, A. 2007. New data on the ecology of 8 taxa of Agrodiaetus Hübner, 1822 from Greece and Spain: hostplants, associated ants and parasitoids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae. Hymenoptera. Diptera). Atalanta 38(1/2): 189–197. ResearchGate . 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. 
• Vishnevskaya, M.S., Saifitdinova, A.F. & Lukhtanov, V.A. 2016. Karyosystematics and molecular taxonomy of the anomalous blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Balkan Peninsula. Comparative Cytogenetics 10(5): 1–85. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v10i5.10944 . Reference page.