Plebejus melissa

Plebejus melissa

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Infraordo: Heteroneura Divisio: Eulepidoptera Sectio: Ditrysia Subsectio: Apoditrysia Clade: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Name

Plebejus melissa Edwards, W. H., 1873.

Type locality: USA, Colorado, Lake County, La Plata Peak, vicinity of Twin Lakes.

Holotype: CM, Pittsburgh.

Lycaena melissa Edwards, 1873: 346.
Rusticus melissa (Edwards); Dyar, [1903]: 44.
Lycaeides melissa pseudosamuelis Nabokov, 1949: 529; synonymy by Lamas, 2004: 140.
Lycaeides melissa (Edwards); Lewis, 1974: pl. 19, figs 35-36.
Plebejus melissa (Edwards); Talavera et al., 2012: 187.

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. Trans, Amer. Ent. Soc. 4 (4): 343–348. BHL. Reference page.

Lamas, G. 2004. Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol. 5A. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439p. 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. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x Reference page.

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