Synonymy

• Hirsutina dolus r. fulgens Sagarra, 1925: 271.
• Agrodiaetus dolus ainsae Forster, 1961: 76, pl. 14,15, figs 5,6. TL: Spanien, Pyrenäen, Ainsa. Synonymy in Vila et al., 2010: 148.
• Agrodiaetus dolus pseudovirgilia de Lesse, 1962: 285. TL: Spain, 25 km W. Burgos, près Villanueva de Aragon.
• Agrodiaetus dolus fulgens (Sagarra); Bridges, 1988: II.3.
• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) dolus fulgens (Sagarra); Bridges, 1994: IX.101.
• Agrodiaetus ainsae leonensis Verhulst, 2004. TL: Spain, Leon province, vicinity of Cistierna.
• Agrodiaetus fulgens (Sagarra); Lukhtanov et al., 2006: 333.
• Agrodiaetus fulgens ainsae (Forster); Lukhtanov et al., 2006: 333.
• Agrodiaetus fulgens pseudovirgilius (de Lesse); Lukhtanov et al., 2006: 333.
• Agrodiaetus fulgens leonensis (Verhulst); Lukhtanov et al., 2006: 333.
• Polyommatus fulgens (Sagarra); Talavera et al., 2013: 186.
• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ainsae (Forster); Lukhtanov et al., 2014: 315.
• Polyommatus fulgens ainsae (Forster); Vishnevskaya et al., 2016: 47.
• Polyommatus fulgens pseudovirgilia (de Lesse); Vishnevskaya et al., 2016: 47.
• Polyommatus fulgens leonensis (Verhulst); Vishnevskaya et al., 2016: 47.

Primary references

• de Sagarra, I. 1926. Annotaciones a la lepidopterologia Ibérica. II. Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural (2)5: 270–274. Reference page. 

• Forster, W. 1961: Bausteine zur Kenntnis der Gattung Agrodiaetus Scudd. (Lep. Lycaen.) II. (Fortsetzung). Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Geselschaft 46: 8–13; 38–47; 74–79; 88–94; 110–116. Reference page. 

• de Lesse, H. 1962. Variation chromosomique chez Agrodiaetus dolus Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Alexanor 2(7): 283–286. Reference page. 

• Verhulst, J. 2004. Description d’une nouvelle sous-espèce d’Agrodiaetus ainsae Forster, 1961 provenant de la province de Leon (Lep. Lycaenidae). Linneana Belgica 19(5): 209–212. Reference page. 

Additional references

• 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. 

• Lukhtanov, V.A., Vila, R. & Kandul, N.P. 2006. Rearrangement of the Agrodiaetus dolus species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) using a new cytological approach and molecular data. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37 (3): 325–334. Full paper (PDF) DOI: 10.1163/187631206788838563 Reference page. 

• Vila, R., Lukhtanov, V.A., Talavera, G., Gil-T., F. & Pierce, N.E., 2010. How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101(1): 130–154. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01481.x 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. 

• Lukhtanov, V.A., Shapoval, N.A. & Dantchenko, A.V. 2014. Taxonomic position of several enigmatic Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Central and Eastern Iran: insights from molecular and chromosomal data. Comparative Cytogenetics 8(4): 313–323. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v8i4.8939 Reference page. 

• Vishnevskaya, M.S., Saifitdinova, A.F. & Lukhtanov, V.A. 2016. Karyosystematics and molecular taxonomy of the anomalous blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Balkan Peninsula. Comparative Cytogenetics 10(5): 1–85. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v10i5.10944 . Reference page.