Kretania

Kretania is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.[1]

Kretania
Kretania sephirus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Kretania
Beuret, 1959
Synonyms

Plebejides Sauter, 1968

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:[2]

The eurypilus species-group:

  • Kretania csomai (Bálint, 1992)
  • Kretania eurypilus (Freyer, 1852) – eastern brown argus
  • Kretania iranica (Forster, 1938)
  • Kretania psylorita (Freyer, 1845) – Cretan argus
  • Kretania zamotajlovi Shchurov & Lukhtanov, 2001

The pylaon species-group:

  • Kretania allardii (Oberthür, 1874)
  • Kretania beani (Bálint & Johnson, 1997)
  • Kretania hesperica (Rambur, 1840)
  • Kretania klausrosei (Bálint, 1992)
  • Kretania martini (Allard, 1867) – Martin's blue
  • Kretania modica (Verity, 1935)
  • Kretania nicholli (Elwes, 1901)
  • Kretania patriarcha (Bálint, 1992)
  • Kretania philbyi (Graves, 1925)
  • Kretania pylaon (Fischer de Waldheim, 1832) – zephyr blue
  • Kretania sephirus (Frivaldszky, 1835)
  • Kretania stekolnikovi Stradomsky & Tikhonov, 2015
  • Kretania trappi (Verity, 1927)
  • Kretania usbekus (Forster, 1939)
  • Kretania zephyrinus (Christoph, 1884)

The alcedo species-group:

  • Kretania alcedo (Christoph, 1877)

Taxonomy

Kretania used to be often included in Polyommatus or in Plebejus, but molecular studies have led to reinstate it as a valid genus, now also encompassing species formerly included in Plebejides (i.e. the pylaon species-group), and K. alcedo (formerly in Vacciniina).

References
  1. "Kretania". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Kretania Beuret, 1959". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  • Media related to Kretania at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Kretania at Wikispecies


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