Taxonavigation

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Zizula
Species: Z. cyna – Z. hylax

Name

Zizula Chapman, 1910: 483.

Type species: Lycaena gaika Trimen, 1862. = Papilio hylax Fabricius, 1775.

References

• Chapman, T. 1910. On Zizeeria (Chapman), Zizera (Moore), a group of lycaenid butterflies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 58(4): 479-497, plates LI-LX. Reference page. 

• Corbet, A. S., 1940. The identity of the Fabrician species Papilio sphinx and Papilio hylax. Entomologist 73: 275. Reference page. 

• Cowan C. F., 1965. Comment on the proposed designation of a type species for Pithecops Horsfield, 1828. Z.N (S.) 1675. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 22(4):209. Reference page. 

• Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology 28(6): 371-505. Reference page. 

• Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae. xvi+ 832 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.36510. BHL. Reference page. 

• Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page. 

• Trimen, R., 1862. On some new species of South African butterflies collected in British Kaffraria by W.S.M. D'Urban Esq., during 1860–1861. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3)1(4): 398–406. BHL. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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