Taxonavigation

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Polyommatus
Subgenus: Agrodiaetus
Species: Polyommatus damonides
Subspecies: P. d. damonides – P. d. elbursicus – P. d. gilanensis

Name

Polyommatus damonides (Staudinger, 1899)

References

• Staudinger, O. 1899. Ueber die Arten und Formen der Lycaena Damon-Gruppe. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 12: 137-155. Reference page. 
• Forster, W. 1961: Bausteine zur Kenntnis der Gattung Agrodiaetus Scudd. (Lep. Lycaen.) II. (Fortsetzung). Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Geselschaft 46: 8–13; 38–47; 74–79; 88–94; 110–116. Reference page. 
• Olivier, A., Puplesiene, J., van der Poorten, D., De Prins, W. & Wiemers, M. 1999. Revision of some taxa of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) transcaspicus group with description of a new species from Central Anatolia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 27(1): 1–24. BHL PDF. Reference page. 
• Eckweiler, W. 2002. Zwei neue Unterarten des Subgenus Agrodiaetus Hübner, 1822 aus Nordwest–Iran (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Gattung Polyommatus). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo NF 23(1-2): 77–79. PDF. 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. 
• Lukhtanov, V.A. & Dantchenko, A.V. 2017. A new butterfly species from south Russia revealed through chromosomal and molecular analysis of the Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) damonides complex (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative cytogenetics 11(4): 769–795. DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i4.20072 . Reference page.