Icaricia

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: Icaricia
Subgenera: I. (Icaricia) – I. (Plebulina)
Species: (7)
I. acmon – I. cotundra – I. icarioides – I. lupini – I. neurona – I. saepiolus – I. shasta

[see Talavera et al., 2013].

Icaricia Nabokov, 1944: 104.

Type species: Lycaena icarioides Boisduval, 1852: 297, by original designation.

Austin, G.T., 1998. Notes on Plebejus saepiolus (Boisduval) (Lep.: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae) in Nevada, with Description of a New Subspecies. In Systematics of Western North American Butterflies. 71: 819-824. Reference page.
Boisduval, J.-A. 1852. Lepidoptères de la Californie. Annales de la Société entomologique de France 10(2): 275–324. BHL. Reference page.
Nabokov, V., 1944. Notes on the Morphology of the Genus Lycaeides (Lycaenidae. Lepidoptera). Psyche 51(3/4): 104–138. pl. 5, textfig. 1, table, [Dec 1944]. 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.
Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J.H., Song, L., Opler, P.A. & Grishin, N.V. 2023. Additional taxonomic refinements suggested by genomic analysis of butterflies. The Taxonomic Report of The International Lepidoptera Survey 11(1): 1-26. Full article (PDF). Reference page.