Kretania eurypilus

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: Kretania
Species: Kretania eurypilus
Subspecies: K. e. afghaniensis – K. e. euaemon – K. e. eurypilus – K. e. khorasanus – K. e. kuhpayensis – K. e. pelopides

Name

Kretania eurypilus (Freyer, 1852).

Type locality: Amasia, Turkey.

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

• Lycaena eurypilus Freyer, 1852: 46, pl.573 f.4.
• Lycaena carmon Gerhard, 1851 (7): 15, pl.25 fig.1a-c; TL: Turkey.
• Polyommatus eurypilus (Freyer); Bálint & Johnson, 1997: 22.
• Kretania eurypilus (Freyer); Higgins & Riley, 1970: 280; Shchurov & Lukhtanov, 2001: 218; Korb & Bolshakov, 2011: 88; Talavera et al., 2013: 187; ten Hagen, 2013: 39.

References

Primary references

• Freyer, C.F. 1831–1858. Neuere Beiträge zur Schmetterlingskunde mit Abbildungen nach der Natur. Augsburg, Reiger. 4to 7 volumes, 120 parts, 700 col. pls. Reference page. 
• Gerhard, B. 1850-1853. Versuch einer Monographie der europäischen Schmetteringsarten: Thecla, Polyomattus [sic], Lycaena, Nemeobius. Als Beitrag zur Schmetterlingskunde Versuch Mon. europ. Schmett. (1): 1-4, pl.1-4, (2): 5, pl.5-8, (3): 7-8, pl. 9-12 (1850); (4): 9, pl.13-16, (5): 11, pl.17-20, (6): 13, pl.21-24, (7): 15, pl.25-28, (8): 17, pl.29-32 (1851); (9): 19, pl.33-36 (1852); (10): 21, pl.37-39 (1853). Reference page. 

Additional references

• Higgins, L.G. & Riley, N.D. 1970. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe. Collins, London, 338 pp. 60 pls. Reference page. 
• van der Poorten, D. 1984. On the occurrence of Kretania eurypilus Freyer on the peloponesos (Lycaenidae, Plebejinae). Nota Lepidopterologica 7(2): 164–170, figs 1-8. BHL. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Shchurov, V.I. & Lukhtanov, V.A. 2001. Notes on the taxonomy of the genus Kretania (Beuret, 1959) with the description of a new species from the Black Sea Coast of Russia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 32(1–2): 217–225. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Korb, S.K. & Bolshakov, L.V. 2011. A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated. Eversmannia, Supplement 2. Full article (PDF) in Russian. Reference page. 
• ten Hagen, W., 2013. Kretania eurypilus (Freyer, [1851]) und verwandte Taxa (Teil 2): Ergebnisse neuer Untersuchungen (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N.F. 34(1/2): 39-50. (PDF). 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.