Plebejus melissa
Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Plebejus
Subgenus: Lycaeides
Species: Plebejus melissa
Subspecies: (4)
P. m. annetta –
P. m. melissa –
P. m. mexicana –
P. m. paradoxa
Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Name
editPlebejus melissa Edwards, W. H., 1873.
Type locality: USA, Colorado, Lake County, La Plata Peak, vicinity of Twin Lakes.
Holotype: CM, Pittsburgh.
Synonymy
editReferences
edit- Dyar, H. G. [1903]. A List of North American Lepidoptera and Key to the Literature of this Order of Insects. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 52: i–xix, 1–723. BHL. Reference page.
- Edwards, W.H., 1873. Descriptions of diurnal Lepidoptera found within the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4(4): 343–348. 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.
- Lewis, H. L., 1974. Butterflies of the World xvi + 104pp., 208 pls. Harrap, London.
- Nabokov, V., 1949. The Nearctic members of the genus Lycaeides Hübner (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. 101 (4): 479–541, 9 pls. BHL. 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.
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