Zizula

Zizula Chapman, 1910 tiny grass blues

Zizula Chapman, 1910; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (4): 483; TS: Lycaena gaika Trimen

Zizula (Zizeerini); Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 400
Zizula (Lycaenidae); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 260
Zizula (Section Zizula); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 448
Zizula (Polyommatini); [NHM card]; [BK], 239; [Opler]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 157
Zizula (Polyommatinae); [NL4A], 138
Zizula (Polyommatini); [AfrL]; Pelham, 2008, J. Res. Lepid. 40: 238
Zizula (Zizulina); Stradomsky, 2016, Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1): 151

Zizula cyna (Edwards, 1881)

Colorado, S.Texas, Mexico - Colombia. See [maps] Tiny Blue Cyna Blue

Lycaena cyna Edwards, 1881; Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 9: 3; TL: San Antonio, Texas
Lycaena tulliola Godman & Salvin, [1887]; Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 108, 3 pl. 58, f. 28-29; TL: Mexico, Veracruz
- = ; [NL4A], #1080; Pelham, 2008, J. Res. Lepid. 40: 238
Lycaena mela Strecker, 1900; Lep. Rhopal. Het., Suppl. 3: 20; TL: Colorado; Texas; Mexico, Chiapas; Colombia
- = ; [NL4A], #1080; Pelham, 2008, J. Res. Lepid. 40: 239

Zizula cyna, Moth Photographers Group [MPG]
Zizula cyna, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Zizula cyna, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]

Lycaena tulliola; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 723
Zizula tulliola; [NHM card]
Everes tulliola; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2) (3): 151
Zizula tulliola; [BOW]: pl. 69, f. 51
Cupido mela; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52: 43
Lycaena mela; [NHM card]
Hemiargus cyna; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52: 46
Lycaena cyna; [NHM card]
Zizula cyna; [NACL], #4355; [BNA]: 394, pl. 35, f. 388; [Opler]; [NL4A], #1080; Pelham, 2008, J. Res. Lepid. 40: 238

Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775)

Africa, Madagascar, S.Arabia, South Africa, Rhodesia, Botswana, Moçambique, Natal, AS, Australia. See [maps] Tiny Grass Blue

Papilio hylax Fabricius, 1775; Syst. Ent.: 526, no. 351; TL: India [Tranquebar]
donovani (Kirby, 1800) (Papilio); Ins. Ind.: pl. 46, f. 2
- = ; [NHM card]
Lycaena gaika Trimen, 1862; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1: 403; TL: S.Africa
- = ; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 400; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 261; [NHM card]; [AfrL]
Lycaena mylica Guenée, 1862; in Maillard, Notes Ile Réunion 2 (Lép.): 18; TL: "Bourbon"
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 261; [NHM card]; [AfrL]
Lycaena cleodora Walker, 1870; Entomologist 5 (76): 54; TL: Egypt
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 261; [AfrL]
Lycaena perparva Saalmüller, 1884; Lepid. Madagascar (1): 93, pl. 1, f. 7; TL: Madagascar
- = ; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 261; [AfrL]
Zizera gaika var. horii Matsumura, 1915; Ent. Mag. Kyoto 1 (2): 67, 68; TL: Saipan

Zizula hylax, Lepiforum [LEPIFORUM]
Zizula hylax hylax, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Zizula hylax, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]

Lycaena perparva; [NHM card]
Pithecops hylax; Druce, 1895, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (3): 570
Zizera gaika; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 109; Rothschild, 1915, Novit. Zool. 22 (3): 389
Zizeeria gaika; [BIR], 285 (key)
Zizula gaika; [BOW]: pl. 182, f. 10
Zizula hylax; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 400; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 261; [BOR], 651; Holloway & Peters, 1976, J. Nat. Hist. 10: 312; [BAFR], 551; [BK]: 239, pl. 24, f. 345; [NHM card]; [MRS], 675; [MadL]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 157; [AfrL]

Misidentified/misapplied:

Lycaena lysimon Hübner; Trimen, 1866, Rhopal. Afr. Austr.: 256, pl. 4, f. 7
- = ; [NHM card]

Z. h. hylax Sri Lanka, India, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Is., Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, Taulaud, Tukangbesi, Banggai, Sula, Maluku, New Guinea, Guam, Fiji, Loyalty Is.

Zizula hylax hylax; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 157

Z. h. pygmaea (Snellen, 1876)

Lycaena pygmaea Snellen, 1876; Tijdschr. Ent. 19 (3): 163, pl. 7, f. 1; TL: Java
- = Zizula hylax (pygmoea); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 261

Zizula hylax pygmaea, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]

Zizera pygmaea; Moore, [1881], Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 79, pl. 35, f. 5, 5a
Lycaena pygmaea; [NHM card]
Cupido pygmaea; [NHM card]
Zizula hylax pygmaea; [BMP]: 246, pl. 34, f. 43-45

Z. h. dampierensis (Rothschild, 1915) West Irian - Papua, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomons

Zizera dampierensis Rothschild, 1915; Novit. Zool. 22 (3): 389; TL: Dampier Island

Cupido dampierensis; [NHM card]
Zizula hylax dampierensis; [BAUR], 362

Z. h. attenuata (Lucas, 1890) Australia (Northern Territory, Cape York - Sydney)

Lycaena attenuata Lucas, 1890; Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 4 (4): 1066; TL: NE.Australia

Lycaena attenuata; [NHM card]
Zizula hylax attenuata; Couchman, 1962, Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 96: 76; [BAUR], 362

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
[BAMONA] Opler, Pavulaan, Stanford & Pogue
Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node
[BCA] electronic
BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA
[BOA] Interactive Listing of American Butterflies
Listado Interactivo de la Mariposas Americanas; Butterflies of America
[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
[John Shuey]
e-mail: jshuey at tnc.org; Director of Conservation Science; Indiana Office of The Nature Conservancy; http://www.nature.org
[LAMAS-NEO] Gerardo Lamas
Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)
[LEPIFORUM]
Lepiforum; Bestimmung von Schmetterlingen (Lepidoptera) und ihren Präimaginalstadien
[MPG]
North American Moth Photographers Group
[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/
[Opler] Opler & Warren, 2003 (April)
Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.
[UTAS] University of Tasmania
The Library Open Repository
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
[maps]
Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

Some related literature:

Brown & Mielke, 1967
Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2) (2): 77-106, (3): 145-168
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
Couchman, 1962
Notes on some Tasmanian and Australian Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania 96 : 73-82
[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
Druce, 1895
A Monograph of the Bornean Lycaenidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (3) : 556-627, pl. 31-34
K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991
Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Pushlished by authors, Melbourne Review Austr. Butts. (1-4):
Dyar, 1903
A List of North American Lepidoptera and Key to the Literature of this Order of Insects Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 1-723
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
Edwards, 1881
Descriptions of new species of diurnal Lepidoptera found within the United States Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 9 : 1-8
Fabricius, 1775
Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus Syst. Ent. : 1-832
Clench in Fox, Lindsey, Clench & Miller, 1965
The Butterflies of Liberia Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19 : 1-438
Godman & Salvin, [1887]; Godman & Salvin, [1901]
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-782, 3: pl. 1-112
[NACL]; Hodges, 1983
Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico Check List Lep. Am. N of Mexico
Holloway & Peters, 1976
The butterflies of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands J. Nat. Hist. 10 : 273-318
[NL4A]; Lamas, 2004
Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera
[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
Lucas, 1890
On Queensland and other Australian Macro-Lepidoptera, with Localities and Descriptions of new Species Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 4 (4) : 1065-1099
Matsumura, 1915
(Micronesian Butterflies) Ent. Mag. Kyoto 1 (2) : 63-68
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)
Pelham, 2008
A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada J. Res. Lepid. 40 : 1-652
Rothschild, 1915
On the Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum sent by Mr. A. S. Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier and Vulcan Islands Novit. Zool. 22 (2): 192-208, (3): 387-402
Saalmüller, 1884
Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Neue und wenig bekannte Arten zumeist aus der Sammlung der Senckenberg'schen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Frankfurt am Main unter Berücksichtigung der gesammten Lepidopteren-fauna Madagascars Lepid. Madagascar (1): 1-246, pl. 1-6 (1884), (2): 249-531, pl. 7-14 (1891)
[BNA]; Scott, 1986
The Butterflies of North America Butts. N. America : 1-583
Snellen, 1876
Lepidoptera van Batavia. Beschrijving der nieuwe soorten Tijdschr. Ent. 19 (3) : 159-167, pl. 7
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
Strecker, 1900
Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic Lep. Rhopal. Het., Suppl. 3 : 13-37,38
Trimen, 1862
On some New Species of South African Butterflies, collected in British Kaffraria by W. S. M. D'Urban, Esq., during 1860-61 Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 : 398-406
Trimen, 1866
Rhopalocera Africae Australis; A catalogue of South African Butterflies: comprising descriptions of all the known species ... Rhopal. Afr. Austr. : 1-353, pl. 1-6
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
[BIR]; Wynter-Blyth, 1957
Butterflies of the Indian Region (1982 Reprint)

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