Lysandra (butterfly)

Lysandra is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Lysandra
Lysandra bellargus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Lysandra Hemming, 1933
Synonyms[1]
Argus Scopoli, 1763 Uranops Hemming, 1929

Species

Listed alphabetically:^[1]

• Lysandra albicans (Gerhard, 1851)
• Lysandra apennina (Zeller, 1847)
• Lysandra arzanovi (Stradomsky & Shchurov, 2005)
• Lysandra bellargus (Rottemburg, 1775)
• Lysandra caelestissima (Verity, 1921)
• Lysandra caucasica (Lederer, 1870)
• Lysandra coridon (Poda, 1761)
• Lysandra corydonius (Herrich-Schäffer, [1852])
• Lysandra dezina de Freina & Witt, 1983
• Lysandra gennargenti Leigheb, 1987
• Lysandra hispana (Herrich-Schäffer, [1851])
• Lysandra melamarina Dantchenko, 2000
• Lysandra nufrellensis Schurian, 1977
• Lysandra ossmar (Gerhard, 1851)
• Lysandra punctifera (Oberthür, 1876)
• Lysandra sheikh Dantchenko, 2000
• Lysandra syriaca (Tutt, 1914)

References

1. Lysandra at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

• Talavera, G, Lukhtanov, V.A.,Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R. (2012): Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics. 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x
• Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Rieppel, L., Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R. (2013): In the shadow of phylogenetic uncertainty: The recent diversification of Lysandra butterflies through chromosomal change. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 469–478.

External links

• Media related to Lysandra at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Lysandra at Wikispecies