Aricia morronensis

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: Aricia
Species: Aricia morronensis
Subspecies: (4) per Tshikolovets, 2011.
A. m. chapmani – A. m. morronensis – A. m. ramburi – A. m. hesselbarthi

Name

Aricia morronensis (Ribbe, 1910).

Type locality: Sierra Espuña, Murcia province, SE. Spain.

Holotype: tbc.

Synonymy

Lycaena idas Rambur, [1840]: 266 (invalid homonym of Papilio idas Linnaeus).
Lycaena idas morronensis Ribbe, [1910]: 190.
Plebejus (Aricia) morronensis (Ribbe); Bridges, 1994: IX.93.
Aricia morronensis (Ribbe); Bálint & Johnson, 1997; Talavera et al., 2013: 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.
Gil-T., F. (2009): Concerning Aricia morronensis in the south and south-east of Spain: new localities, a revision of its sub-specific status, and a proposal of synonymy (Lepid., Lycaenidae). ISSN 0171-0079 | Atalanta 40 (1/2): 193–199, 331. Full article: [1].
Shaw, M. & F. Gil-T. (2008): The first known parasitoid of Aricia morronensis (Ribbe, 1910), an endemic Iberian species, and notes on the parasitoids (Hymenoptera; Diptera) of the genus Aricia in Europe (Lep.: Lycaenidae; Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Ichneumonidae; Diptera: Tachinidae). ISSN 0171-0079 | Atalanta 39 (1/4): 343–346, 423. Full article: [2].
Sañudo-Restrepo, C.P., Dincă, V., Talavera, G. & Vila, R. 2013. Biogeography and systematics of Aricia butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66(1): 369–379. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.010 . 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.
Tshikolovets, V.V., 2011. Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean Area Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic. 544pp. ISBN 9788090490000. Reference page.