Biology:Polyommatus

Short description: Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Polyommatus
Polyommatus icarus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Polyommatus Latreille, 1804
Synonyms
Agrodiaetus Hübner, 1822 Hirsutina Tutt, 1909 Bryna Evans, 1912 Meleageria Sagarra, 1925 Plebicula Higgins, 1969 Paragrodiaetus Rose & Schurian, 1977 Sublysandra Kocak, 1977 Admetusia Koçak & Seven, 1998 Thersitesia Koçak & Seven, 1998

Polyommatus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Palearctic realm.

Taxonomy

Recent molecular studies have demonstrated that Cyaniris, Lysandra, and Neolysandra are different genera from Polyommatus, where they had been included, sometimes as subgenera.

Some authors still recognize other subgenera, such as Agrodiaetus, Bryna, Meleageria, and Plebicula.

References

• Talavera, G, Lukhtanov, V.A.,Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R. (2012): Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics. 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x
• 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 101:130-154 (2010) abstract

Further reading

• French Wikipedia has more information about this genus at :fr: Polyommatus

External links

• Images representing Polyommatus at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Wikidata ☰ Q1084480 entry