Kretania

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: (20)
K. alcedo –K. allardii –K. beani –K. csomai –K. eurypilus –K. hesperica –K. iranica –K. martini – K. modica –K. nicholli –K. patriarcha –K. philbyi –K. psylorita –K. pylaon –K. sephirus –K. stekolnikovi – K. trappi –K. usbeka –K. zephyrinus –K. zamotajlovi

Name

Kretania Beuret, 1959: 83.

Type species: Lycaena psylorita Freyer, 1845: 146, pl. 469, figs 3, 4.

Synonyms

• Plebejides Sauter, 1968: 4. Type species: Lycaena pylaon Fischer von Waldheim, 1832: 357. Synonymy in Talavera et al., 2013: 187.

References

• Bálint, Z. 1991. Egy xeromontán boglárkalepke: a Plebejus pylaon (Fischer von Waldheim, 1832) és rokonsági köre (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), I. (A xeromontane lycaenid butterfly species: Plebejus pylaon (Fischer von Waldheim, 1832) and its relatives (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Part I.) Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 35 (1990): 33–69., Pécs. [in Hungarian, with English abstract] Full article. Reference page. 
• Bálint, Z. 1992. A New Species of Plebejides Sauter, 1968 from Central Asia. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 23(1/2): 133–138, 304–305. PDF. Reference page. 
• Beuret, H. 1959. Zur Taxonomie einiger paläarktischer Bläulinge (Lep., Lycaenidae). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel 9(4): 80–84. Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Sauter, W. 1968. Hilfstabellen zur Bestimmung europäischer Lycaeniden (Lep. Lycaenidae). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel 18(1): 1–17. 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. 
• Stradomsky, B.V. & Tikhonov, V.V. 2015. Molecular genetics study of some Caucasian representatives of the genus Kretania Beuret, 1959 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with the description of a new species Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11(1): 183–187. Full article (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. 
• 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.