Polyommatus caeruleus Staudinger, 1871
Caspian blue argus
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Polyommatus caerulea Staudinger, 1871; Lycaena damon var.ab. caerulea Staudinger, 1871
Conservation Status
Last record: 1981
Rediscovered on 23 July 2000 (Wiemers et al. 2009:16)
Distribution
Caspian area
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Staudinger, O. (1871). Macrolepidoptera. In: Staudinger, O. & Wocke, M. F., Catalog der Lepidopteren des europäischen Faunengebietes.
Other references:
Karaçetin, E. and Welch, H. J. (2011). Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey. Ankara, Turkey: Doğa Koruma Merkezi. Available from: [www.dkm.org.tr].
Wiemers, Martin, Keller, Alexander and Wolf, Matthias. (2009). ITS2 secondary structure improves phylogeny estimation in a radiation of blue butterflies of the subgenus Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatus). BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 300.
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