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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Polyommatus
Subgenus: Plebicula
Species: Polyommatus atlantica
Subspecies: (3) per Tshikolovets, 2011.
P. a. atlantica –
P. a. barraguei –
P. a. weissi
Name
Polyommatus atlantica (Elwes, [1906])
Type locality: Morocco, "Tsauritz Entsagauz" and "Imentalla"
Lectotype: ♂ BMNH, Imentalla, Atlas Mts., 5,500ft, (E.G.B. Meade-Waldo leg.), 10.vii.1901. BMNH(E)#264486. Designated by Bálint, 1999: 16.
Synonymy
- Lycaena hylas var. atlantica Elwes, [1906]: 380, pl. 19, figs 5, 6.
- Polyommatus (Plebicula) atlantica (Elwes); Bridges, 1994: IX.106.
- Plebicula atlantica (Elwes); Tennent, 1996: 44, pl. 13, figs 1-10.
- Polyommatus (Plebicula) atlanticus (Elwes); Tshikolovets, 2011: 251.
- Polyommatus atlanticus (Elwes); Talavera et al., 2013: 185.
References
- Elwes, H. J., [1906]. In E. G. B. Meade-Waldo: On a collection of butterflies and moths made in Marocco, in 1900-01-02. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1905(4): 369-394, pl. 19. Reference page.
- Tennent, W.J., 1996. The butterflies of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria 217pp, 32 pls. Gem Publishing, Wallingford. ISBN 9780906802052 Reference page.
- Bálint, Z.,1999. Annotated list of type specimens of Polyommatus sensu Eliot of the Natural History Museum, London (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). PDF. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 46: 3–82. Reference page.
- Tshikolovets, V.V., 2011. Butterflies of Europe & the Mediterranean Area Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice, Czech Republic. ISBN 9788090490000. 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.