Plebejus anna

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Plebejus
Subgenus: Lycaeides
Species: Plebejus anna

Name

Plebejus anna (Edwards, 1861).

Type locality: USA: Vicinity of Truckee, Nevada County, California.

Lectotype: CM Pittsburgh; designated by Brown, 1970:368.

Synonymy

• Lycaena anna Edwards, 1861: 163; Draudt in Seitz, [1924]ː 817 Pl.144h.
• =Plebejus (Lycaeides) idas anna (Edwards); Bridges, 1994: VIII.31.
• Plebejus anna (Edwards); Talavera et al., 2012: 187.

References

• Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page. 
• Brown, F. M., 1969-70. The Types of Lycaenid butterflies Described by William Henry Edwards, 1 Lycaeninae, 2 Theclinae, Strymoninae, 3 Plebejinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 95: 161–179 [6 Jun 1969]; 96 (l): 19–77 [25 Mar 1970]; 96: 353–433 [17 Nov 1970]. Reference page. 
• Edwards, W.H., 1861. Descriptions of certain species of diurnal Lepidoptera found within the limits of the United States and British America. 1. Proc. Philad. Acad. Sci. 13 :160-164. 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.