Afarsia rutilans

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: Afarsia
Species: Afarsia rutilans

Name

Afarsia rutilans (Staudinger, 1886).

Type locality: Tura, Tajikistan [?Alaisky Mts.].

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

• Lycaena rutilans Staudinger, 1886: 208; Grum-Grshimailo, 1890: 378, pl. 7, fig 7.
• Plebejus iris rutilans (Staudinger); Bridges, 1994: IX.96.
• Albulina rutilans (Staudinger); Bálint & Johnson, 1997.
• Farsia rutilans (Staudinger); Zhdanko, 2000: 178, pl. 68, figs 19-21.
• Afarsia rutilans (Staudinger); Talavera et al, 2012: 187.

References

• 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. 
• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Grum-Grshimailo, G. E., 1890. Le Pamir et sa faune lédopterologique, in Romanoff, Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères. 4: vii+577 pp, 22 pls. text, plates. Reference page. 
• Staudinger, O., 1886-1889. Centralasiatische Lepidopteren. Entomologische Zeitung 47: 193-215, 225-256; 48:49-102; 49:1-64; 50:16-60. 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. 
• 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.