Synonymy

• Lycaena damocles Herrich-Schäffer, [1844]: 113.
• Agrodiaetus damocles (Herrich-Schäffer)
• Polyommatus damocles (Herrich-Schäffer)
• Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damocles (Herrich-Schäffer)

Primary references

• Herrich-Schäffer, G.A.W. 1843–56. Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa, zugleich als Text, Revision und Supplement zu Jakob Hübner's Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge. Regensburg, In Commission bei G. J. Manz. Vols: 1–3; Vols: 4–5; Vol. 6. Reference page.  [see volume 1 p. 113]

Additional references

• Dantchenko, A.V. & Lukhtanov, V.A. 1993. Zur Systematik und Verbreitung der Arten der Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damone-Gruppe Südosteuropas und Südwestsibiriens (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Atalanta 24(1/2): 75–83. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Dantchenko, A.V. 1997. Notes on the biology and distribution of the damone and damocles species-complexes of the subgenus Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 16: 23–42. PDF Reference page. 

• Lukhtanov, V.A. & Dantchenko, A.V. 2002. Descriptions of new taxa of the genus Agrodiaetus Hübner, [1822] based on karyotype investigation (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Atalanta 33(1/2): 81–107. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Carbonell, F. 2003. Agrodiaetus damocles tortumensis n. ssp. et A. d. urartua n. ssp. de Turquie orientale (Lep., Lycaenidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 108(2): 175–176. Online. Reference page. 

• Lukhtanov, V.A., Efetov, K.A. & Dantchenko, A.V. 2019. Karyotype reinvestigation does not confirm the presence of two cryptic species and interspecific hybridization in the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damocles complex in the Crimea (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative cytogenetics 13(3): 311–319. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v13i3.46777 . Reference page.