Zizeeria

Zizeeria Chapman, 1910 Grass Blues

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

Zizeeria; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Zizeeria (Section Zizeeria); Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 447
Zizeeria (Lycaenidae); Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 256
Zizeeria (Polyommatini); [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 (Zizeerini); Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 399

1049x807 (~188Kb) Ethiopia, Oromia, Debre Libanos env., at German Ethio Lodge, the Gur River right bank. 30th July 2012, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

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

Zizeeria knysna knysna; [iNaturalist]
Zizeeria knysna; [H&R]; [BHR]; Clench, 1965, Mem. Amer. Ent. Soc. 19: 399; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 258; [PBSA]; [BAFR], 550; [BK]: 238, pl. 24, f. 323; Munguira, García-Barros & Martín, 1997, Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 21; [BMAT]: 33, pl. 11, f. 5-10; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [Otakar Kudrna]; [FE]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [MBE]
Zizeeria lysimon; [BOW]: pl. 11, f. 9
Zizera knysna; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 108, pl. 11, f. 10
Zizera lysimon; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 108, pl. 11, f. 9

Misidentified/misapplied:

Lycaena lysimon; Trimen, 1866, Rhopal. Afr. Austr.: 256, pl. 4, f. 7

500x418 (~48Kb) underside Tenerife, Los Gigantes, 8/4/97, Photo © Simon Coombes

600x435 (~48Kb) underside Morocco, , Photo © Jean Delacre

500x530 (~31Kb) SPAIN: Teneriffa, 1-5.4.1996, Photo © Valentina Anderson

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; [CoL]

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

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

Zizeeria knysna serica; [CoL]

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

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

Zizeeria knysna volpii; [CoL]

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; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist]

Z. k. angustemarginata Heydemann, [1955] Afghanistan

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

Zizeeria knysna angustemarginata; [CoL]

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.
?Zizera mora Swinhoe, [1885]; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1884: 506, pl. 47, f. 7

Cupido ishigakiana; [CoL]
Cupido mora; [CoL]
Zizeeria karsandra; Stempffer, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent) Suppl. 10: 258; [BMP]; [BOR], 651; [MRS], 674; [BMP]: 245, pl. 34, f. 40-42; [BMAT]: 34, pl. 11, f. 11-16; Dunn & Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts.:; Bálint, 1992, Linn. Belg. 13 (8): 400; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 156; [AfrL]; [FE]; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [LEPIFORUM] ; [MBE] ; [Yutaka Inayoshi] ; [Don Herbison-Evans]
Zizeeria knysna karsandra; [BAUR], 362
Zizera karsandra; Moore, [1881], Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 78, pl. 35, f. 6, 6a; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900: 109

537x651 (~62Kb) underside Thailand, Chon Buri Province, between Pattaya and Bang Phra, a roadside. 1st February 2005, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

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)
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[Don Herbison-Evans] and Stella A. Crossley
Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths
[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-BMW] Natural History Museum
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
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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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 Mon. Rhop. Sinesium : 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
[BAFR]; D'Abrera, 1980
Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region: -
[BOR]; D'Abrera, 1982-1986
Butterflies of the Oriental Region I-III
[BHR]; D'Abrera, 1990-1993
Butterflies of the Holarctic Region I: 1? (1990), : ?-? (1992), III: 336-524 (1993)
[PBSA]; Dickson & Kroon, 1978
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa
Dunn & Dunn, 1991
Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy Review Austr. Butts. (1): 1-196, (2): 197-335, (3): 336-512, (4): 513-660
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
[H&R]; Higgins & Riley, 1970
A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe
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. 982-968 (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)
Munguira, García-Barros & Martín, 1997
Plantas nutricias de los licénidos y satirinos españoles (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae y Nymphalidae) Boletín de la Asociación española de Entomología, 21 : 29-53
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
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

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