Subgenus Phoenicurusia Verity, 1943
       
Synonyms
[ORIG] Lycaena (Phoenicurusia) Verity, 1943. Farfalle diurne Italia 2: 21.  
    TS: Polyommatus phoenicurus Lederer, 1870 by original designation.
[JS] Athamanthia Zhdanko, 1983. Entomol. Obozr. 62: 161.  
    TS: Lycaena athamantis Eversmann, 1854 by original designation.
Notes  
(1) List of the species found in the Western Palearctic: Lycaena (Phoenicurusia) japhetica Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1983.  
(2) List of the subgenera not found in the Western Palearctic: Lycaena (Phoenicurusia) margelanica (Staudinger, 1881) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) phoenicurus (Lederer, 1870) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) dimorphus (Staudinger, 1881) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) eitschbergeri (Lukhtanov, 1993) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) athamantis (Eversmann, 1854) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) euphratica Eckweiler, 1989 ; L. (Phoenicurusia) balucha Howarth & Povolny, 1976 ; L. (Phoenicurusia) alexandra (Püngeler, 1901) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) dilutior (Staundinger, 1881) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) rushanica (Zhdanko, 1990) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) sogdiana (Zhdanko, 1990) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) namanganica (Lukhtanov, 2000) ; L. (Phoenicurusia) churkini (Zhdanko, 2000) ; …  
Bibliography  
Verity R. 1943.
Le Farfalle diurne d'Italia. Volume secundo, Divisione Lycaenida. Firenze: Marzocco SA (Ed.). pp. i-xii, 1-401, pl. 5-19, pl. [morphology] III-IX. (url partim)
New taxon: Lycaena (Phoenicurusia).		  
       

Жданко А. Б. (=Zhdanko A. B.). 1983.
Определитель родов голубянок (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) фауны СССР по гениталиям самцов.
(Key to the Lycaenid genera of the Soviet Union, based on the characters of the male genitalia.)
Энтомологическое обозрение (Entomological Review) 62: 131-152. (url not available)
New taxon: Athamanthia.

  
 
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