Lysandra

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Lysandra
Species: (16)
L. albicans – L. apennina – L. arzanovi – L. bellargus – L. caelestissima – L. coridon – L. corydonius – L. dezina – L. gennargenti – L. hispana – L. melamarina – L. nufrellensis – L. ossmar – L. punctifera – L. sheikh – L. syriaca

[see Talavera et al., 2013]

Lysandra coridon, ♀, Belgium.

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

Name

Lysandra Hemming, 1933.

Type species: Papilio coridon Poda, 1761.

Synonyms

• Lysandra Hemming, 1933: 277.
• Argus Scopoli, 1763 (rejected, ICZN op. 429)
• Uranops Hemming, 1929 (preocc. Uranops Fitzinger, 1843)

References

Primary references

• Hemming, A. F., 1933. Holarctic butterflies: Miscellaneous notes on nomenclature. Entomologist 66: 275–279. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Freina de, J.J. & Witt, T.J. 1983. Zwei neue Lycaenidae-Arten aus Türkisch Kurdistan: Lysandra dezina sp.n. und Polyommatus ciloicus sp.n. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Entomofauna 4(14): 181–197. PDF. Reference page. 
• Schurian, K.G. 1989. Revision der Lysandra-Gruppe des Genus Polyommatus Latr. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 24: 1–181. PDF. Reference page. 
• De Prins, W. & van der Poorten, D. 1993. Rhopalocera and Grypocera of Turkey 11. Description of the females of two little known lycaenid butterflies from southeast Turkey: Polyommatus (Lysandra) dezinus (de Freina & Witt, 1983) and Polyommatus buzulmavi Carbonell, 1992 (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae). Phegea 21(1): 11–16. 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. 
• Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Rieppel, L., Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R., 2013. In the shadow of phylogenetic uncertainty: The recent diversification of Lysandra butterflies through chromosomal change. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3): 469–478. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.08.004 . Reference page. 
• Vodolazhsky, D.I. & Stradomsky, B.V. 2008. [А study of blues butterflies of the group of Lysandra corydonius (Herrich-Schäffer, 1804) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with the use of mtDNA markers.] Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 4(3): 353–355. [In Russian]. DOI: 10.23885/1814-3326-2008-4-3-353-355 . Reference page.