Genus Turanana Bethune-Baker, 1916
       
Synonyms
[ORIG] Turanana Bethune-Baker, 1916. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Zool. Bot. Geol. (8)17(101): 379.  
    Replacement name forTurania Bethune-Baker, 1914 ; TS: Lycaena cytis Christoph, 1877 by Code ICZN Art. 67.8.
[JH] Turania Bethune-Baker, 1914. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 26(7/8): 160.  
    TS: Lycaena cytis Christoph, 1877 by original designation ; nec Ragonot, 1891.
[JH] Turanana (Otaria) Zhdanko, 1984. Trudy zoo!. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 122: 104.  
    TS: Turanana tatjana Zhdanko, 1984 by original designation ; nec Gray, 1859.
[JS] Turanana (Otnjukovia) Zhdanko, 1997. Zoosyst. Rossica 5(2): 312.  
    Replacement name for Otaria Zhdanko, 1984 ; TS: Turanana tatjana Zhdanko, 1984 by Code ICZN Art. 67.8.  
Notes  
(1) List of the species found in the Western Palearctic: Turanana taygetica (Rebel, 1902) ; T. mystica Morgun & Tikhonov, 2010.  
(2) List of the species not found in the Western Palearctic: Turanana panagaea (Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]) ; T. tatjana Zhdanko, 1984 ; T. dushak Dubatolov, 1989 ; T. panaegides (Staudinger, 1886) ; T. cytis (Christoph, 1877) ; T. laspura (Evans, 1932) ; T. jurileontyi Shchetkin, 1986 ; T. grumi (Forster, 1937) ; T. anisophtalma (Kollar, [1849]) ; T. kugitangi Zhdanko, 1984 ; T. endymion (Freyer, [1850]) ; T. chitrali Charmeux & Pagès, 2004 ; …  
Bibliography  
Bethune-Baker G. T. 1914..
Synonymic notes on the Ruralidae (concluded from page 136).
The entomologist's record and Journal of Variation 26(7/8): 159-164. (url)
New taxon: Turania.		  
       
Bethune-Baker G. T. 1916.
XLIII. Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural history; including Zoology, Botany, and Geology (8)17(101) : 378-385. (url)
New taxon: Turanana.		  
       
Жданко А. Б. [Zhdanko A. B.] 1984.
Обзор голубянок рода Turanana Beth.-Bak. с описанием нового вида T. tatjana sp. п. из подрода Otaria subgen, n. (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) из Казахстана [Review of the blue butterfly genus Turanana Beth.-Bak., with description of new a new species, T. tatjana sp.n., from subgenus Otaria subgen. n (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Kazakhstan].
Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiya Nauk SSSR [Transactions of the Zoological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR] 122: 98-105. (url not available)
New taxon: Otaria.		  
       
Zhdanko A. B. 1997.
On nomenclature of some Palaearctic Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera).
Zoosystematica Rossica 5(2): 312. (url)
New taxon: Otnjukovia.		  
Reference publications  
Coutsis J. G. 2005.
Revision of the Turanana endymion species- group (Lycaenidae).
Nota lepidopterologica 27(4): 251-272, fig. (url) ; correction, Nota lepidopterologica 28: 202 (url)		  
       
Coutsis J. G. & Borie J.-P. 2007.
Turanana dushak new to Iran, a re-description of its valva and of the valve of Turanana panaegides, and new sampling locality data for Turanana endymion endimion and Turanana endymion ahasveros (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).
Phegea 35(2): 57-63. (url)		  
       
Korb S. K. 2013.
Short review of the Middle Asiatic representatives of the Turanana cytis (Christoph, 1877) group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 9(2): 295-298, fig. (url)		  
 
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