Itylos

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: Itylos
Species: I. fumosus – I. mashenka – I. mira – I. pasco – I. pnin – I. titicaca

Name

Itylos Draudt, [1921].

Type species: Cupido speciosa Staudinger, [1894] 1: 19; by designation of Hemming, 1929: 240; 1967: 236; = Lycaena titicaca Weymer, 1890, synonymised in Lamas, 2004: 139.

Synonyms

Parachilades Nabokov, 1945
Ithylos [sic] Forster, 1955, mis-spelling.
Ityloides Balletto, 1993. Synonymy in Lamas, 2004: 139.

References

Primary references

Draudt, M.W.K. 1917–1924. Die amerikanischen Tagfalter. Lycaenidae and Grypocera. In Seitz, Gross-schmetterlinge der Erde 5: 739–999, Pls.1–194. Reference page.
Nabokov, V. 1945. Notes on Neotropical Plebejinae (Lycaenidae: Lepidoptera). Psyche 52(1/2): 1–61, 8 pls. Reference page.
Balletto, E. 1993. On some new genus-group and species-group names of Andean Polyommatini (Lepidoptera). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 124(3): 231–243. Reference page.

Additional references

Bálint, Zs. & G. Lamas, 1994: Polyommatine lycaenids of the Oreal Biome in the Neotropics, Part III: Descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 40 (3): 231–240.
Bálint, Zs. & G. Lamas, 1998: Another new species of Itylos from the high Andes of Peru (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 90: 215–219. Full article: [1].
Hemming, A.F., 1929. Notes on the generic names of the Holarctic Lycaenidae (Lep. Rhop.) Annals and Magazine of natural History 10(3): 217–245. 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.
Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page.