Zizeeria karsandra

Zizeeria karsandra, ♂, Thailand.
Zizeeria karsandra, ♀, North Sulawesi.

Taxonavigation

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: Zizeeria
Species: Zizeeria karsandra

Name

Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865).

Type locality: India, NW Himalayas.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

  • Polyommatus karsandra Moore, 1865: 505, pl.31, fig.7.
  • Lampides neis Walker, 1870: 54, TL: Wady Genneh, Arabia.
  • Lycaena conformis Butler, 1877: 469, TL: Cape York
  • Zizera mora Swinhoe, [1885]: 506, pl.XLVII, fig.2.
  • Zizera karsandra (Moore); Butler, 1900: 109.
  • Zizeeria karsandra (Moore): Chapman, 1910: 481, 484; Hemming, 1967: 467; Bridges, 1994: VIII.239, IX.135; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003: 156, Pl.8 fig.20.
  • Zizera ishigakiana Matsumura, 1929: 109, TL: Ishigaki, Japan

References

  • Beuret, H., 1955. Zizeeria karsandra Moore in Europa und die systematische Stellung der Zizeeriinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Mitteilungen der Entomologische Gesellschaft Basel 5:123-130, 3 pls. Reference page. 
  • Bridges, C.A. (1994). Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Urbana, Illinois: Bridges. BHL Reference page. 
  • Butler, A. G., 1877a. On a collection of Lepidoptera from Cape York and the South East coast of New Guinea. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1877(3): 466–475. Archive. Reference page. 
  • Butler, A. G., 1900b. A revision of the butterflies of the genus Zizera represented in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 104 - 110, 1. pl.Reference page. 
  • Chapman, T. 1910. On Zizeeria (Chapman), Zizera (Moore), a group of lycaenid butterflies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 58(4): 479-497, plates LI-LX. 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. 
  • Matsumura, S. 1929. New butterflies from Japan, Korea and Formosa. Insecta Matsumurana 3(2/3): 87–107. hdl: 2115/9168 Open access. Reference page. 
  • Moore, F., 1865 ["1866"]. List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A. M. Lang in the NW Himalayas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865(2): 486–509. BHL, Pls.30, 31. Reference page. 
  • Swinhoe, C., [1885]. On Lepidoptera collected at Kurrachee. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1884(4): 503-529, pls 47-48. text, plates. Reference page. 
  • Vane-Wright, R.I. & de Jong, R. 2003. The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen 343: 3–267, figs 1–14, pls 1–16. Online. Reference page. 
  • Walker, F. 1870. A list of the butterflies collected by J.K. Lord, Esq., in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the species new to science. The Entomologist 5: 48–57. Reference page. 

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Vernacular names

  • English: Dark Grass Blue
  • தமிழ்: கரும்புல் நீலன்
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