Lycaena (Epidemia)

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: Lycaeninae
Genus: Lycaena
Subgenus: Lycaena (Epidemia)
Species: L. (E.) dorcas –L. (E.) epixanthe –L. (E.) helloides –L. (E.) hyllus –L. (E.) mariposa –L. (E.) nivalis

Name

Lycaena (Epidemia) Scudder, 1876.

Type species: Polyommatus epixanthe Boisduval & Leconte, 1833.

Synonymy

• Epidemia Scudder, 1876: 127; Hemming, 1967: 163.

References

• Boisduval, J.-A. & Le Conte, J.E. 1829–1837. Histoire générale et Iconographie des Lépidoptères et des Chenilles de l'Amérique septentrionale. Parts 1–26. Reference page. 
• Ferris, C.D. 1977. Taxonomic revision of the species dorcas Kirby and helloides Boisduval in the Genus Epidemia Scudder (Lycaenidae: Lycaeninae). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 45: 1-42, 88 f. 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. Reference page. 
• Pyle, R.M. & Hammond, P.C. 2018. A Review of the Mariposa Copper (Lycaena (Epidemia) Mariposa, Lycaenidae) with Description of Nine New Subspecies and a Model for their Biogeographical Origins. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 72(1): 1–26. Reference page. .

Links

Lepindex; [ BoA].