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Pseudozizeeria Beuret, 1955

Pseudozizeeria Beuret, 1955; Mitt. ent. Ges. Basel (n.f.) 5: 125, TS: Lycaena maha Kollar
Pseudozizeeria (Polyommatini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 447

Pseudozizeeria maha (Kollar, [1844])

Iran, Tibet, India, China, Burma, Japan. See [About maps] Pale Grass Blue
Lycaena maha Kollar, [1844]; in Hügel, Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek, 4: 422, TL: Mussoorie
Polyommatus chandala Moore, 1865; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2) : 504, pl. 31, f. 5
Lycaena opalina Poujade, 1885; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) 5 : cxliii
Lycaena marginata Poujade, 1885; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) 5 : cli
Plebeius albocoeruleus Röber, 1886; Corr.-Bl. Ent. Ver. Iris 1 (3) : 59, pl. 4, f. 7, TL: Hongkong
Lycaena argia Ménétriés, 1857; Cat. lep. Petersb. 2: 125, pl. 10, f. 7
Lycaena japonica Murray, 1874; Ent. mon. Mag. 11 : 167
Lycaena alope Fenton, [1882]; in Butler & Fenton, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881 (4) : 851
Pseudozizeeria maha maha, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]

Zizera opalina ; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 107, pl. 11, f. 5-6 Zizera argia ; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 108, pl. 11, f. 7-8

Zizera maha ; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 106, pl. 11, f. 1-2 Zizeeria maha f. marginata ; Forster, 1940, Mitt. Münch. ent. Ges. 30 : 873 Zizeeria maha f. opalina ; Forster, 1940, Mitt. Münch. ent. Ges. 30 : 873 Zizeeria maha ; Forster, 1940, Mitt. Münch. ent. Ges. 30 : 872, pl. 22-23, f. 10-11; [BIR, 284 (key)]; [BOW: pl. 206, f. 52, 53] Zizina maha ; Pseudozizeeria maha ; [MRS, 674]

1056x718 (~41Kb) underside male female Ranzan, Saitama, Japan, 7-95, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt	1056x718 (~53Kb) underside female Madanbashi, Okinawa, Ryukyu, Japan, 8-96, Laying egg on Oxalis sp.?, Photo © S. Shuichi Haupt	identification uncertain 769x513 (~80Kb) underside Thailand, Krabi 24.12.2003-7.1.2004, Photo © Olli Vesikko
1000x808 (~95Kb) underside male The Soockchon River bank, Ogchon County, Chung-Cheung Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	540x507 (~68Kb) upperside male The Soockchon River bank, Ogchon County, Chung-Cheung Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	736x690 (~53Kb) underside male The Soockchon River bank, Ogchon County, Chung-Cheung Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin
521x496 (~41Kb) underside male Dragonfly Station, Gurye County, Jeonnam Province, S Korea, 28th July 2002, Photo © Oleg Kosterin	identification uncertain 1100x914 (~199Kb) female Japan: Lake Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, 23.08.2007, Photo © Peter Payzant	identification uncertain 650x807 (~71Kb) male Japan: Lake Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, 25.08.2007, Photo © Peter Payzant
identification uncertain 650x693 (~69Kb) upperside male Japan: Tokyo, 1.9.2007, Photo © Peter Payzant	600x400 (~49Kb) upperside India: Pune, 9.11.2007 © Kedar Tokekar	600x400 (~56Kb) underside India: Pune, 9.11.2007 © Kedar Tokekar
512x341 (~40Kb) India: Ziro, 9.11.2005, Photo © Kedar Tokekar

Larva on Oxalis corniculata [MRS]

P. m. maha

Pakistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, S.China

P. m. ossa (Swinhoe, 1885)

S.India Zizera ossa Swinhoe, 1885; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885 : 132, pl. 9, f. 11-12
Pseudozizeeria maha ossa ; [BOR, 651]

P. m. okinawana (Matsumura, 1929)

Zizera maha f. okinawana Matsumura, 1929; Insecta Matsumurana 3 (2/3) : 105, TL: Okinawa
Pseudozizeeria maha okinawana ; [MRS, 674]

P. m. diluta (Felder, 1865)

Yunnan, ... ?Lycaena squalida Butler, 1879; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1879 (1) : 4
Zizera diluta ; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 107, pl. 11, f. 3-4
Pseudozizeeria maha diluta ; Huang, 2001; Huang, 2003, Neue Ent. Nachr. 55: 104 (note)

P. m. saishutonis (Matsumura, 1927)

Korea Zizera maha saishutonis Matsumura, 1927; Insecta Matsumurana 1 (4) : 169, pl. 5, f. 7, TL: Corea, Quelpart-Isl.

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References:

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[BIR]

Wynter-Blyth, 1957; Butterflies of the Indian Region; (1982 Reprint)

[BOR]

D'Abrera, 1982, 1985, 1986; Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part I-III

[BOW]

Lewis, 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[Kedar Tokekar]

India

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[Olli Vesikko]

http://koti.welho.com/ovesikko/

[Peter Payzant]

Canada; http://www.pbase.com/ppayzant/profile

[S. Shuichi Haupt]

e-mail: S. Shuichi Haupt; http://www.tu-berlin.de/fb7/ioeb/biologie/stefan.htm

[Yutaka Inayoshi]

A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM

Some related literature:

Butler, 1879

On a collection of Lepidoptera from Cachar, N.E. India Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1879 (1) : 1-8

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

Fenton in Butler & Fenton, [1882]

On butterflies from Japan, with which are incorporated notes and descriptions of new species by Montague Fenton Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881 (4) : 846-856

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

Fawcett, 1904

On some New and Little-known Butterflies, mainly from high elevations in the N.E. Himalayas Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1904 2 (1) : 131-141, pl. 9

Forster, 1940

Neue Lycaeniden-Formen aus China. 1 Mitt. Münch. ent. Ges. 30 : 870-883, pl. 22-24

Huang, 2003

A list of butterflies collected from Nujiang (Lou Tse Kiang) and Dulongiang, China with descriptions of new species, and revisional notes Neue Ent. Nachr. 55: 3-114

Matsumura, 1927

A list of the butterflies of Corea, with description of new species, subspecies and aberrations Insecta Matsumurana 1 (4) : 159-170

Matsumura, 1929

New butterflies from Japan, Korea and Formosa Insecta Matsumurana 3 (2/3) : 87-107, pl. 4

Ménétriés, 1857

Enumeratio corporum animalium Musei Imperialis Academiae Scientiarum Petropilitanae. Classis Insectorum, Ordo Lepidopterorum Cat. lep. Petersb. 1: 1-66, pl. 1-6, (supplement) 67-112 (1855), 2: 67-97,99-144, pl. 7-14 (1857), 3: 145-161, pl. 15-18 (1863)

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

Murray, 1874

Notes on Japanese Butterflies, with descriptions of new Genera and Species Ent. mon. Mag. 11 : 166-172

Poujade, 1885

[no title] Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) 5 : x-xi [10-11], : xxiv-xxv [24-25], : xli-xlii [41-42], : lxvi [61], : xciv-xcv [94-95], : cxliii [143], : cli [151], : cc [200], : ccvii-ccviii [207-208], : ccxv-ccxvi [215-216]

Röber, 1886

Neue Tagschmetterlinge der Indo-Australischen Fauna Corr.-Bl. Ent. Ver. Iris 1 (3) : 45-72, pl. 2-5

Swinhoe, 1885

On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan. Part I-IV Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885 : 124-148, pl. 9 (I. Rhopalocera), : 287-307, pl. 20-21 (II. Heterocera), : 447-476, pl. 27-28 (III. Heterocera), : 852-886, pl. 56-57 (IV. Heterocera)

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