Zizeeria

Zizeeria Chapman, 1910 Grass Blues

Zizeeria Chapman, 1910; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (4): 480, 482; TS: Polyommatus karsandra Moore

Zizeeria (Zizeerini); Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 399
Zizeeria (Lycaenidae); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 256
Zizeeria (Section Zizeeria); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 447
Zizeeria (Polyommatini); [NHM card]; [BK], 238; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 156; [AfrL]; [FE]
Zizeeria (Zizeeriina); Stradomsky, 2016, Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1): 151

Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

AF, Madagascar, Seychelles, Canary Islands, S.Iberia. See [maps] African Grass Blue Dark Grass Blue

Lycaena knysna Trimen, 1862; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 (3): 282; TL: S.Africa
Papilio lysimon Hübner, [1803]; Samml. eur. Schmett. [1]: pl. 105, f. 534-535 (preocc. lysimon Stoll, [1790])
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 258; [NHM card]; [AfrL]; [FE]

Zizeeria knysna, Lepiforum [LEPIFORUM]
Zizeeria knysna, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Zizeeria knysna, Captain's European Butterfly Guide [Simon Coombes]

Zizera lysimon; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 108, pl. 11, f. 9
Zizeeria lysimon; [BOW]: pl. 11, f. 9
Zizera knysna; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 108, pl. 11, f. 10
Zizeeria knysna; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 399; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 258; [BAFR], 550; [BK]: 238, pl. 24, f. 323; [NHM card]; [BMAT]: 33, pl. 11, f. 5-10; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [Otakar Kudrna]; [FE]

Z. k. plato (Blanchard, 1853)

Polyommatus plato Blanchard, 1853; Voy. Pol. Sud. Astrolabe 4: 398, pl. 3, f. 9-10 [? misid. Hesperia plato Fabricius, 1793
novaehollandiae (Felder, 1862) (Lycaena); Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 12 (1/2): 490
- = Zizeeria knysna plato ; [NHM card]

Zizeeria knysna plato; [NHM card]

Z. k. serica (Felder, 1862) Hong Kong

Lycaena serica Felder, 1862; Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 12 (1/2): 487

Zizeeria knysna serica; [NHM card]

Z. k. volpii (Romei, 1927) N.Africa

knysna volpii (Romei, 1927) (Zizera); Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici 20: 275

Zizeeria knysna volpii; [NHM card]

Z. k. corneliae Regteren Altena, 1948 Canary Is.

Cupido lysimon corneliae Regteren Altena, 1948; Tijdschr. Ent. 91: 17; TL: Teneriffer, Santa Cruz

Zizeeria knysna corneliae; [NHM card]

Z. k. angustemarginata Heydemann, [1955] Afghanistan

knysna angustemarginata Heydemann, [1955]; Zs. Wien. Ent. Ges. 39 (12): 424

Zizeeria knysna angustemarginata; [NHM card]

Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)

E.Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Crete, Tropical Asia, Australia, Moluccas, Waigeu, Misool, Salawati, West Irian, Timor - Tanimbar. See [maps] Dark Grass Blue

Polyommatus karsandra Moore, 1865; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2): 505, pl. 31, f. 7; TL: India
Lycaena conformis Butler, 1877; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877 (3): 469; TL: Cape Yoork
Zizera ishigakiana Matsumura, 1929; Insecta Matsumurana 3 (2/3): 105; TL: Okinawa, Ishigakijima
Lampides neis Walker, 1870; Entomologist 5 (76): 54; TL: Wady Genneh, Arabia.
- = ; [NHM card]
?Zizera mora Swinhoe, [1885]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1884: 506, pl. 47, f. 7

Zizeeria karsandra, Lepiforum [LEPIFORUM]
Zizeeria karsandra, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Zizeeria karsandra, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Zizeeria karsandra, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]

Cupido ishigakiana; [NHM card]
?Cupido mora; [NHM card]
Lycaena conformis; [NHM card]
Zizera karsandra; Moore, [1881], Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 78, pl. 35, f. 6, 6a; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 109
Zizeeria karsandra; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 258; [BOR], 651
Zizeeria knysna karsandra; [BAUR], 362
Zizeeria karsandra; [MRS], 674; [BMP]: 245, pl. 34, f. 40-42; [BMAT]: 34, pl. 11, f. 11-16; [NHM card]; Bálint, 1992, Linn. Belg. 13 (8): 400; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 156; [AfrL]; [FE]

References:

[AfrL] Mark C. Williams
Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); Afrototropical Butterflies; e-mail: Mark C. Williams
[BnF]
Gallica / Bibliothèque nationale de France; Annales de la Société entomologique de France; Bulletin de la Sociéte entomologique de France
[CEB]
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin; issues (PDF)
[Don Herbison-Evans] and Stella A. Crossley
Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans
[FE] Fauna Europaea
Fauna Europaea
[HBN] Francis Hemming, 1937
HÜBNER, A bibliographical and systematic account of the entomological works of Jacob Hübner and of the supplements thereto by Carl Geyer, Gottfried Franz von Frölich and Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer, Vol 1 & 2
[Jean Delacre]
http://homepage.mac.com/jdelacre
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[MBE] Moths and Butteflies of Europe
Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/
[NHM] Natural History Museum
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index; Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Oleg Kosterin] Institue of Cytology & Genetics
Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/
[Simon Coombes] 1 Park Street, Plymouth, PL3 4BL, UK
01752 607854; e-mail: Simon Coombes; http://www.butterfly-guide.co.uk
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
[ZOBODAT] Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum
OÖ. Landesmuseum; ZOBODAT - Literatur
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Some related literature:

Bálint, 1992
Faunistic data of Lycaenid butterflies from the Himalayan Region I (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) Linn. Belg. 13 (8) : 395-422
Blanchard, 1853
Voyage au Pole sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelée executé ......pendant......1837-40 sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville etc. Zool., Insectes. Vol. 4 Voy. Pol. Sud. Astrolabe 4 : 1-422, pl. 1-25
Butler, 1877
On a collection of Lepidoptera from Cape York and the south-east coast of New Guinea Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877 (3) : 466-475
Butler, 1900
A Revision of the Butterflies of the Genus Zizera represented in the Collection of the British Museum Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 104-111, pl. 11
Chapman, 1910
On Zizeeria Chapman, Zizera Moore. A Group of Lycaenid Butterflies Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (4) : 479-497, pl. 51-60
[MRS]; Chou, 1994
Monografia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium 1-2: 1-854
[BMP]; Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992
The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Fourth Edition revised by J. N. Eliot with plates by Bernard D'Abrera Butterflies Malay Peninsula (4th edn) : 1-595, pl. 1-69
[BAUR]; D'Abrera, 1977
Butterflies of the Australian Region (2nd edn) Butts. Aust. Region: 1-416
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991
Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Pushlished by authors, Melbourne Review Austr. Butts. (1-4):
Eliot, 1973
The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505 (162fgs), pl. 1-6
Felder, 1862
Verzeichniss der von den Naturforschern der k. k. Fregatte Novara gesammelten Macropepidoteren Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 12 (1/2) : 473-496
Clench in Fox, Lindsey, Clench & Miller, 1965
The Butterflies of Liberia Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19 : 1-438
Heydemann, [1955]
Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna Afghanistans Zs. Wien. Ent. Ges. 39 (11): 385-396, (12): 412-428, pl. 35-36
Hübner, [1803]
Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge. I. Papiliones - Falter ("Erste Band") Samml. eur. Schmett. [1] : 3-74, : pl. 1-88, f. 1-446 (1799-1800), : pl. 89-96, f. 447-490 (1800-1803), : pl. 97-114, f. 491-588 (1803-1804), : pl. 115-119, f. 589-612 (1805), : pl. 120-124, f. 613-636 (1805-1806), : pl. 125-128, f. 637-652 (1806-1808), : pl. 129-144, f. 653-727 (1808-1813), : pl. 145-147, f. 728-741 (1814-1816), : pl. 148-150, f. 742-756 (1816-1817), : pl. 151, f. 757-762 (1818-1819), : pl. 152-154, f. 757-774 (1819-1822), : pl. 155, f. 775-778 (1822-1823), : pl. 156-161, f. 779-806 (1823), : pl. 162-175, f. 807-874 (1823-1824), : pl. 176, f. 869-874 (1824-1825), : pl. 177-181, f. 875-895 (1825-1826), : pl. 182-187, f. 896-981 (1827-1828), : pl. 188-195, f. 922-968 (1828-1832), : pl. 196, f. 969-974 (1832-1833), : pl. 197-201, f. 975-997 (1834-1836), : pl. 202-203, f. 998-1009 (1836-1838), : pl. 204-207, f. 1010-1029 (1837-1838)
[BK]; Larsen, 1996
The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history Butterflies of Kenya
[MadL]; Lees, Kremen & Raharitsimba, 2003
Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist in Goodman & Benstead, Nat. Hist. Madagascar : 762-793
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Matsumura, 1929
New butterflies from Japan, Korea and Formosa Insecta Matsumurana 3 (2/3) : 87-107, pl. 4
Moore, 1865
List of diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Capt. A.M. Lang in the N. W. Himalayas Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2) : 486-509, pl. 30-31
Moore, [1881]
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Lepid. Ceylon 1 (1): 1-40, pl. 1-18 (Dec 1880), (2): 41-80, pl. 19-36 (Jan 1881), (3): 81-136, pl. 37-54 (Jun 1881), (4): 137-190, pl. 55-71 (Dec 1881)
Regteren Altena, 1948
Macrolepidoptera collected in Teneriffe and La Pallma in the spring of 1947 Tijdschr. Ent. 91 : 12-22
Stempffer, 1967
The genera of the African Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10 : 1-322
Stradomsky, 2016
A molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Polyommatinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1) : 145-156
Swinhoe, [1885]
On the Lepidoptera collected at Kurrachee Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1884 : 503-529, pl. 47-48
[BMAT]; Tennent, 1996
The Butterflies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia : 1-217
Trimen, 1862
On some New Species of South African Butterflies Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 (3) : 279-291
Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003
The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island faunda Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 3-268, pl. 1-16
Walker, 1870
A list of the Butterflies collected by J.K. Lord Esq. in Egypt, along the African shore of the Red Sea, and in Arabia; with descriptions of the Species new to Science Entomologist 5 (76): 48-57, (80-81): 123-134, (82): 151-155

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