Taxonavigation

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Polyommatus
Subgenus: Agrodiaetus
Species: Polyommatus nephohiptamenos

Name

Polyommatus nephohiptamenos (Brown & Coutsis, 1978)

Type locality: “mountains of NE. Greece, 1800 m” .

Holotype: ♂, 30.VII.1977, J. Brown leg. et coll.

References

• Brown J. & Coutsis, J.G. 1978. Two newly discovered lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Greece, with notes on allied species. Entomologist’s Gazette 29(4): 201–213. Reference page. 
• Coutsis, J.G. & de Prins, J. 2007. The chromosome number and karyotype of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) nephohiptamenos (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 35(1): 27–29. PDF. Reference page. 
• Lafranchis, T., Gil-T., F. & Lafranchis, A. 2007. New data on the ecology of 8 taxa of Agrodiaetus Hübner, 1822 from Greece and Spain: hostplants, associated ants and parasitoids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae. Hymenoptera. Diptera). Atalanta 38(1/2): 189–197. ResearchGate . 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. 
• 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.