Zizeeria karsandra

Zizeeria karsandra, ♂, Thailand.

Zizeeria karsandra, ♀, North Sulawesi.

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: Zizeeria
Species: Zizeeria karsandra

Name

Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865).

Type locality: India, NW Himalayas.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

• Polyommatus karsandra Moore, 1865: 505, pl.31, fig.7.
• Lampides neis Walker, 1870: 54, TL: Wady Genneh, Arabia.
• Lycaena conformis Butler, 1877: 469, TL: Cape York
• Zizera mora Swinhoe, [1885]: 506, pl.XLVII, fig.2.
• Zizera karsandra (Moore); Butler, 1900: 109.
• Zizeeria karsandra (Moore): Chapman, 1910: 481, 484; Hemming, 1967: 467; Bridges, 1994: VIII.239, IX.135; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003: 156, Pl.8 fig.20.
• Zizera ishigakiana Matsumura, 1929: 109, TL: Ishigaki, Japan

References

• Beuret, H., 1955. Zizeeria karsandra Moore in Europa und die systematische Stellung der Zizeeriinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Mitteilungen der Entomologische Gesellschaft Basel 5:123-130, 3 pls. Reference page. 
• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Butler, A. G., 1877a. On a collection of Lepidoptera from Cape York and the South East coast of New Guinea. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1877(3): 466–475. Archive. Reference page. 
• Butler, A. G., 1900b. A revision of the butterflies of the genus Zizera represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 104 - 110, 1. pl.Reference page. 
• Chapman, T. 1910. On Zizeeria (Chapman), Zizera (Moore), a group of lycaenid butterflies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 58(4): 479-497, plates LI-LX. Reference page. 
• Hemming, A.F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. BHL Reference page. 
• Matsumura, S., 1929. New butterflies from Japan, Korea and Formosa. Insecta Matsumura 3: 87–107. PDF. Reference page. 
• Moore, F., 1865. List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A. M. Lang in the NW Himalayas. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865(2): 486-509, Pls.30,31. Reference page. 
• Swinhoe, C., [1885]. On Lepidoptera collected at Kurrachee. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1884(4): 503-529, pls 47-48. text, plates. Reference page. 
• Vane-Wright, R.I. & de Jong, R. 2003. The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen 343: 3–267, figs 1–14, pls 1–16. Online. Reference page. 
• Walker, F. 1870. A list of the butterflies collected by J.K. Lord, Esq., in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the species new to science. The Entomologist 5: 48–57. Reference page. 

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Vernacular names

English: Dark Grass Blue
தமிழ்: கரும்புல் நீலன்

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