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Zizeeria Chapman, 1910

Grass Blues
Zizeeria Chapman, 1910; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (4) : 480, 482, TS: Polyommatus karsandra Moore
Zizeeria (Polyommatini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 447; [BK, 238]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 156; [AfrL]

Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)

AF, Madagascar, Seychelles, Canary Islands, S.Iberia. See [About maps] African Grass Blue Dark 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
Zizeeria knysna, Moths and Butterflies of Europe [MBE]
Zizeeria knysna, Captain's European Butterfly Guide [Simon Coombes]
Zizera lysimon ; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 108, pl. 11, f. 9
Zizeeria lysimon ; [BOW: pl. 11, f. 9]
Zizera knysna ; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 108, pl. 11, f. 10
Zizeeria knysna ; [BAFR, 550]; [BK: 238, pl. 24, f. 323]; [BMAT: 33, pl. 11, f. 5-10]; [MadL]; [AfrL]; [Otakar Kudrna]

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

Larva on Oxalis [BHR]

Larva on Tribulus terrestris, Amaranthus deflexus, Amaranthus viridis, Medicago sativa, Oxalis corniculata, Zornia, Euphorbia [PBSA], Polygonum equisetiforme, Armeria delicatula, Medicago tribuloides, Melilotus messanensis, Acanthyllis sp., Medicago sativa [BMAT], (on Canary Is.) Amaranthus sp., Malva sp., Fagonia [BMAT]

Z. k. corneliae Regteren Altena, 1948

Canary Is. Cupido lysimon corneliae Regteren Altena, 1948; Tijdschr. Ent. 91 : 17, TL: Teneriffer, Santa Cruz

Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)

E.Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Crete, Tropical Asia, Australia, Moluccas, Waigeu, Misool, Salawati, West Irian, Timor - Tanimbar. See [About 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: 109, TL: Ishigaki, Japan
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
Zizeeria karsandra, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Zizeeria karsandra, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
Zizera karsandra ; Moore, [1881], Lepid. Ceylon 1 (2): 78, pl. 35, f. 6, 6a; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 109
Zizeeria karsandra ; [BOR, 651]
Zizeeria knysna karsandra ; [BAUR, 362]
Zizeeria karsandra ; [MRS, 674]; [BMP: 245, pl. 34, f. 40-42]; [BMAT: 34, pl. 11, f. 11-16]; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 156; [AfrL]

Larva on Zornia diphylla, Amaranthus viridis, (association with ant Tapinoma melanocephalum) [BMP] Amaranthus tricolor, A. viridis [MRS], Melilotus indica, Medicago sativa, Zornia diphylla, Trifolium alexandrinum [BMAT], Glinus lotoides, Tribulus cistoides, T. terrestris, T. spp. K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

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References:

[About 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.

[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

[BAFR]

D'Abrera, 1980; Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region

[BAUR]

D'Abrera, 1977; Butterflies of the Australian Region (2nd edn)

[BHR]

D'Abrera; Butterflies of the Holarctic Region, Part I-III

[BK]

Larsen, 1996; The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history

[BMAT]

Tennent, 1996; The butterflies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia; ISBN 0 906802 05 9

[BMP]

Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2

[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

[Don Herbison-Evans]

and Stella A. Crossley; Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans

[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

[MBE]

Moths and Butteflies of Europe; Paolo Mazzei, Diego Reggianti and Ilaria Pimpinelli; http://www.leps.it/

[MRS]

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

[MadL]

Lees, D.C., Kremen, C. and Raharitsimba, H. 2003; in S.M. Goodman & J. P. Benstead (eds.), The Natural History of Madagascar; Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist: : pp. 762-793; University of Chicago Press. 1709 pp.

[PBSA]

Dickson, C.G.C (ed.), Kroon, D.M.; Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa; AD. DONKER 1978

[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

Some related literature:

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

K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991

Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Pushlished by authors, Melbourne Review Austr. Butts. (1-4):

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

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. 922-968 (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)

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)

Regteren Altena, 1948

Macrolepidoptera collected in Teneriffe and La Pallma in the spring of 1947 Tijdschr. Ent. 91 : 12-22

Swinhoe, [1885]

On the Lepidoptera collected at Kurrachee Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1884 : 503-529, pl. 47-48

Trimen, 1862

On some New Species of South African Butterflies Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 (3) : 279-291

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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