Kretania sephirus

Lycaena akbesiana (= Kretania sephirus) from original description.

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

Kretania sephirus (Frivaldszky, 1835).

Type locality: Bulgaria, Balkan Mts, Sliven.

Syntype: ♂ BMNH , Rothschild Bequest, Bulgaria (Balkan Mnts); BMNH(E) #265360.

Lycaena sephirus Frivaldszky, 1835: 269, pl.7, figs 1-2.
Lycaena zephyrus [sic (Frivaldszky)]; Herrich-Schäffer, [1843]: 126.
Lycaena zephyrus akbesiana [sic] Oberthür, 1904: 16, pl.2, f.21-22; Bálint, 1999: 9; TL: Syrie, Akbés.
Lycaena zephyrus ledereri (ab.) [sic] Thierry-Mieg, 1911: 235. Synonymy on BMNH card.
Lycaena sephyrus uhryki [sic] Rebel, 1911: 191; Bálint, 1999: 62; TL: Deliblát, Flamunda, Yugoslavia. Synonymy on BMNH card.
Plebeius sephyrus [sic] (Frivaldszky); Verity, 1935: 245.
Plebeius sephyrus microsephyrus [sic] Verity, 1935: 245. Synonymy on BMNH card.
Plebeius sephirus kovacsi Szabó, 1954: 39; Bálint, 1999: 40; TL: Csomád Fót, Hungary
Plebeius sephirus proximus Szabó, 1954: 39. Synonymy on BMNH card.
Plebeius foticus Szabó, 1956: 276. Synonymy on BMNH card.
Plebejus pylaon sephyrus (Frivaldszky); [BMNH card]
Plebejus pylaon sephirus (Frivaldszky); Higgins & Riley, 1970: 275.
Plebejus pylaon brethertoni Brown, 1976: 46; TL: Greece, Mt Helmós.
Plebejides sephirus magnificus Bálint, 1987: 101; TL: Macedonia, 1600m, Petrina planina.
Plebejus (Plebejides) pylaon sephirus (Frivaldszky); Bálint, 1999: 58; Abadjiev, 2002: 22.
Plebejides sephirus (Frivaldszky); Zhdanko et al, 2000: 169, pl.71, f.37-42; Korb & Bolshakov, 2011: 86.
Kretania sephirus (Frivaldszky); Talavera, Lukhtanov, Pierce & Vila, 2013: 187.

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Frivaldszky, E., 1835. Kocz lések a Balkany vidékén tett termés zettudomanyc ut azásrd in a Magyar tudos Társaság, évknoenyvei-Mádosik Koetet [Catalog der Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, u. Conchylien des Balkan.] Annalen der ungr. Akademie, 1835: 235-276. Reference page.

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Tronicek, E., 1938. Lycaena psylorita ab. obenbergeri m.n. Casopis Ceskoslovenské spolecnosti entomologické Prague. 35: 116-118, figs. Reference page.

Verity, R., 1935. Races de Lysandra thersites Chapman et de Plebeius sephyrus Frivaldszky de l'Asie Mineure. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 45(17): 243-245. Gallica. Reference page.

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