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Zizula Chapman, 1910

Grass Blues
Zizula Chapman, 1910; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1910 (4) : 483, TS: Lycaena gaika Trimen
Zizula (Polyommatini) ; Eliot, 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 448; [BK, 239]; [Opler]; [AfrL]
Zizula (Polyommatinae) ; [NL4A, 138]

Zizula cyna (Edwards, 1881)

Colorado, S.Texas, Mexico - Colombia. See [About maps] Tiny Blue Cyna Blue
Lycaena cyna Edwards, 1881; Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 9 : 3, TL: Texas
Lycaena tulliola Godman & Salvin, [1887]; Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 108, 3: pl. 58, f. 28-29, TL: Mexico, Veracruz

= ; [NL4A, #1080]

Lycaena mela Strecker, 1900; Lep. Rhopal. Het., Suppl. 3: 20, TL: Colorado; Texas; Mexico, Chiapas; Colombia

= ; [NL4A, #1080]

Zizula cyna, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Zizula cyna, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Zizula cyna, Butterflies and Moths of North America [BAMONA]
Lycaena tulliola ; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 723
Cupido mela ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 43
Hemiargus cyna ; Dyar, 1903, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 46
Zizula cyna ; [NACL, #4355]; [BNA: 394, pl. 35, f. 388]; [Opler]; [NL4A, #1080]
Everes tulliola ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 151
Zizula tulliola ; [BOW: pl. 69, f. 51]

Misidentified/misapplied:

gaika; auth., not Trimen, 1862

320x322 (~15Kb) Belize, Central America, Photo © John Shuey

Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775)

Africa, Madagascar, S.Arabia, South Africa, Rhodesia, Botswana, Moçambique, Natal, AS, Australia. See [About maps] Tiny Grass Blue
Papilio hylax Fabricius, 1775; Syst. Ent.: 526, no. 351, TL: India [Tranquebar]
Lycaena gaika Trimen, 1862; Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 : 403, TL: S.Africa
Lycaena mylica Guenée, 1862; in Maillard, Notes Ile Réunion 2 (Lép.): 18, TL: "Bourbon"
Lycaena cleodora Walker, 1870; Entomologist 5 (4): 54, TL: Egypt
Lycaena perparva Saalmüller, 1884; Lepid. Madagascar (1): 93, TL: Madagascar
Zizera horii Matsumura, 1931; Ent. Mag. (Kyoto) 1 (2): 67-68, TL: Saipan
Zizula hylax hylax, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Zizula hylax, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
Zizera gaika ; Butler, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1900 : 109; Rothschild, 1915, Novit. Zool. 22 (3): 389
Zizeeria gaika ; [BIR, 285 (key)]
Zizula gaika ; [BOW: pl. 182, f. 10]
Zizula hylax ; [BOR, 651]; [BAFR, 551]; [BK: 239, pl. 24, f. 345]; [MRS, 675]; [MadL]; [AfrL]

Should this taxon be Zizula gaika (Trimen, 1862)? (confusion with Pithecops hylax Horsfield, [1828]?).

Larva on Phaulopsis imbricata, Ruellia sp., Justicea sp., Chaetacanthus setiger, Dyschoriste sp., Oxalis corniculata [PBSA], Blechum pyramidatum, Strobilanthes spp., Lantana camara, Vicia spp. [MRS], Hygrophila angustifolia K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

Z. h. pygmaea (Snellen, 1876)

Lycaena pygmaea Snellen, 1876; Tijdschr. Ent. 19 (3) : 163, pl. 7, f. 1, TL: Java
Zizula hylax pygmaea ; [BMP: 246, pl. 34, f. 43-45]

688x866 (~117Kb) underside Thailand, Phuket, a bank of a pond at a road 1 km NE of Khao Sai Tan Kliang Mt., 24th February 2009, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Z. h. dampierensis (Rothschild, 1915)

West Irian - Papua, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomons Zizera dampierensis Rothschild, 1915; Novit. Zool. 22 (3): 389, TL: Dampier Island
Zizula hylax dampierensis ; [BAUR, 362]

Z. h. attenuata (Lucas, 1890)

Australia (Northern Territory, Cape York - Sydney) Lycaena attenuata Lucas, 1890; Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 4 (4) : 1066, TL: NE.Australia
Zizula hylax attenuata ; [BAUR, 362]

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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); e-mail: Mark C. Williams

[BAFR]

D'Abrera, 1980; Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region

[BAMONA]

Paul Opler, Harry Pavulaan, Ray Stanford, Michael Pogue; Butterflies and Moths of North America; Mountain Prairie Information Node

[BAUR]

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

[BCA]

electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA

[BIR]

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

[BK]

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

[BMP]

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

[BNA]

Scott, James A., 1986; The Butterflies of North America

[BOA]

Interactive Listing of American Butterflies; Listado Interactivo de la Mariposas Americanas; Butterflies of America

[BOR]

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

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 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

[ILMB]

Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies

[JLS]

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society; the original J. Lep. Soc. articles

[John Shuey]

e-mail: jshuey at tnc.org; Director of Conservation Science; Indiana Office of The Nature Conservancy; http://www.nature.org

[LAMAS-NEO]

Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)

[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.

[NACL]

Hodges, Ronald W. (ed.), 1983; Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico

[NL4A]

Gerardo Lamas, 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea

[Oleg Kosterin]

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

[Opler]

Opler & Warren, 2003 (April); Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for Butterfly Species of North America, north of Mexico.

[PBSA]

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

[Yutaka Inayoshi]

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

Some related literature:

Brown & Mielke, 1967

Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera (continued) J. Lep. Soc. 21 (3): 145-168

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):

Dyar, 1903

A List of North American Lepidoptera and Key to the Literature of this Order of Insects Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 52 : 1-723

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

Edwards, 1881

Descriptions of new species of diurnal Lepidoptera found within the United States Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 9 : 1-8

Fabricius, 1775

Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Syst. Ent.: 832pp

Godman & Salvin, [1887]; Godman & Salvin, [1901]

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-782, 3: pl. 1-112

Lucas, 1890

On Queensland and other Australian Macro-Lepidoptera, with Localities and Descriptions of new Species Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 4 (4) : 1065-1099

Rothschild, 1915

On the Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum sent by Mr. A. S. Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier and Vulcan Islands Novit. Zool. 22 (2): 192-208, (3): 387-402

Saalmüller, 1884

Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Neue und wenig bekannte Arten zumeist aus der Sammlung der Senckenberg'schen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Frankfurt am Main unter Berücksichtigung der gesammten Lepidopteren-fauna Madagascars Lepid. Madagascar (1): 1-246, pl. 1-6 (1884), (2): 249-531, pl. 7-14 (1891)

Snellen, 1876

Lepidoptera van Batavia. Beschrijving der nieuwe soorten Tijdschr. Ent. 19 (3) : 159-167, pl. 7

Strecker, 1900

Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, indigenous and exotic Lep. Rhopal. Het., Suppl. 3: 13-37,38

Trimen, 1862

On some New Species of South African Butterflis, collected in British Kaffraria by W. S. M. D'Urban, Esq., during 1860-61 Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 : 398-406

Walker, 1870

A list of the [61] 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 (4): 48-57

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