Praephilotes

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: Praephilotes
Species: (2) (Bridges, 1994: IX.108).
P. anthracias – P. violacea

Name

Praephilotes Forster, 1938: 105. Type Species: Lycaena anthracias Christoph, 1877, by original designation.

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.
Christoph, H.T., 1876-1877. Sammelergebenisse aus Nordpersien, Krasnowodsk in Turkmenien und dem Dhagestan. Horae Societas entomologicae ross. [Moscow] 12: 181–196 (1876); 197-299 (1877), Pls 5-8. BHL1, BHL2, plates. Reference page.
Forster, W. 1938. Das system der paläarktischen Polyommatini (Lep. Lycaenidae). Mitteilungen der Münchner entomologischen Gesellschaft 28: 97-118.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.