Patricius lucifer

Patricius lucifer is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (South Siberia (mountains), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, West China) that belongs to the blues family.

Patricius lucifer
Patricius lucifer in Seitz 78 g
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Patricius
Species:
P. lucifer
Binomial name
Patricius lucifer
Synonyms
  • Lycaena lucifera Staudinger, 1867
  • Plebejus lucifera (Staudinger, 1867)
  • Plebejus lucifer (Staudinger, 1867)
  • Patricius lucifera (Staudinger, 1867)

Taxonomy

Patricius lucifer used to be placed in the genus Plebejus.

Description from Seitz
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

L. lucifera Stgr. (= biton Brem.) (78 g). Above both sexes blackish, the male with the scaling on the disc quite dark blue-green with vivid gloss ; the female before the margin of the hindwing with pale ocelli whose centres are formed by the marginal dots. Beneath very uniformly deep dark grey, the ocelli with pale borders, the anal ones with metallic scales. Siberia (Altai), Mongolia and Tibet. — themis Gr.-Grsh.[now full species] is similar to eversmanni, with smaller and paler ocelli on the underside; from the Sinin Mountains.[2]

See also

References
  1. Staudinger, 1867 Einige neue Lepidopteren (sämmtlich aus der Sammlung des verstorbenen O. Gruner) Stettin Ent. Ztg 28 : 100-110
  2. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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