Polyommatus mediator

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: Polyommatus
Subgenus: Agrodiaetus
Species: Polyommatus mediator
Subspecies: P. m. habievi – P. m. mediator

Name

Polyommatus mediator Dantchenko & Churkin, 2003

Type locality: Mongolia, Mongolian Altai, 30 km of Biger, 45-25N, 97-08E, 2650-2950 m.

Holotype: ZSM. male ♂. 29.VI.02-7.VII.02. legit S. Churkin.

Synonymy

• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) mediator Dantchenko & Churkin, 2003: 6.
• Agrodiaetus mediator (Dantchenko & Churkin); Yakovlev, 2012: 77.
• Polyommatus mediator Dantchenko & Churkin; Talavera et al., 2013: 186.

References

Primary references

• Dantchenko, A.V. & Churkin, S.V. 2003. A new species of the genus Polyommatus Latreille, 1804 from Mongolia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Neue entomologische nachrichten 54: 5–13. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Additional references

• Vodolazhsky, D.I., Yakovlev, R.V. & Stradomsky, B.V. 2011. [Study of taxonomic status of some specimens of subgenus Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatus) from Western Mongolia based on mtDNA markers.] Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 7(1): 81–82. [In Russian]. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Yakovlev, R.V. 2012. Checklist of Butterflies (Papilionoidea) of the Mongolian Altai Mountains, including descriptions of new taxa. Nota Lepidopterologica 35(1): 51-96. 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.