Taxonavigation

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Lycaeninae
Genus: Lycaena
Subgenera: L. (Epidemia) – L. (Phoenicurusia)

Species: L. aeolus – L. alciphron – L. aditya – L. alpherakii – L. athamantis – L. boldenarum – L. candens – L. dispar – L. dorcas – L. editha – L. feredayi – L. helle – L. hippothoe – L. kasyapa – L. margelanica – L. ochimus – L. otbayar – L. ouang – L. phlaeas – L. ratushinskayae – L. rauparaha – L. rubidus – L. salustius – L. thersamon – L. tityrus – L. tseng – L. virgaureae

Name

Lycaena Fabricius, 1807: 285.

Type species: Papilio phlaeas Linnaeus, 1761, by selection of Curtis, 1828: Pl.8 text fig..

References

• Austin, G.T., 1984: A new subspecies of Lycaena editha (Mead) (Lycaenidae) from Nevada. Journal on Research on the Lepidoptera 23 (1): 83–88. Full article: .
• Charmeux, J.F. & J.M. Desse 2006. Bilan de huit séjours au Pakistan et description de Cupido nagarensis sp. nova et de Palasa gohlshali sp. nova. Bulletin des Lépidoptéristes Parisiens 14(35): 81–136. Reference page. 
• Churkin, S.V. 2004. Taxonomic notes on Thersamolycaena Verity, 1957 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), with the description of a new species. Helios 5: 75–90. Reference page. 
• Churkin, S.V. & Kolesnichenko, K.A. 2019. A new species of Lycaena Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Mongolia with a review of genitalia characters of the related taxa. Zootaxa 4555(4): 548–560. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.4.6. Reference page. 
• Eckweiler, W. 2004. Lycaena (Phoenicurusia) phoenicurus monalisa ssp. n. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo NF 25(3): 104. Reference page. 
• Fabricius, J.C. 1807. In Illiger, J. K. W. Magazin für Insektenkunde 6: 279–289. BHL. Reference page. 
• Huang, R.-X. & Murayama, S.-i. 1992. Butterflies of Xinjiang Province, China. Tyô to Ga 43(1): 1–22. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Korb, S.K. 2012. New data on the systematic and distribution of butterflies of Middle Asia with some notes on its faunagenesis (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Eversmannia, 29-30: 8–14. [In Russian]. PDF. Reference page. 
• Krupitsky, A.V. 2017. On the type species of the genus Phoenicurusia Verity, 1943 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Lycaeninae). Zootaxa 4306(1): 137–139. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.1.9. Reference page. 
• Olivier, A., 1999. On the publication dates of "Versuch einer Monographie der europaischen Schmetterlingsarten: Thecla, Plyomattus [sic], Lycaena, Nemeobius. Als Beitrag zur Schmetterlingskunde by Paul Bernhard Gerhard (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 27(4):127- 140.BHL. Reference page. 
• Smart, P.E. 1975. The international butterfly book. N.Y.: Thomas C. Crowell. 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. Reference page. 
• Wakahara, H., Miyamoto, T. & Nakamura, N. 2008. Notes on the butterflies of Laos (III): Discovery and description of a new subspecies of Helleia tseng (Oberthür, 1886) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from central Laos. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 50: 42–49. Reference page. 
• Zhdanko, A.B. 1993. Systematics and distribution of lycaenids of the genus Thersamonolycaena. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Entomological Review 72(1): 134–142. Reference page. 
• Zhdanko, A.B. 1995: [On the systematics of the genera Lycaena F. and Heliophorus Geyer (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae).] Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 74(3): 652-661. [in Russian, English translation in Entomological review 75(9): 1-11. (1996)] Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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