Kretania is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.[1]
| Kretania | |
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| Kretania sephirus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Kretania Beuret, 1959 |
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Plebejides Sauter, 1968 | |
Species
editListed alphabetically within groups:[2]
The eurypilus species-group:
- Kretania csomai (Bálint, 1992)
- Kretania eurypilus (Freyer, 1852) – eastern brown argus
- Kretania iranica (Forster, 1938)
- Kretania psylorita (Freyer, 1845) – Cretan argus
- Kretania zamotajlovi Shchurov & Lukhtanov, 2001
The pylaon species-group:
- Kretania allardii (Oberthür, 1874)
- Kretania beani (Bálint & Johnson, 1997)
- Kretania hesperica (Rambur, 1840)
- Kretania klausrosei (Bálint, 1992)
- Kretania martini (Allard, 1867) – Martin's blue
- Kretania modica (Verity, 1935)
- Kretania nicholli (Elwes, 1901)
- Kretania patriarcha (Bálint, 1992)
- Kretania philbyi (Graves, 1925)
- Kretania pylaon (Fischer de Waldheim, 1832) – zephyr blue
- Kretania sephirus (Frivaldszky, 1835)
- Kretania stekolnikovi Stradomsky & Tikhonov, 2015
- Kretania trappi (Verity, 1927)
- Kretania usbekus (Forster, 1939)
- Kretania zephyrinus (Christoph, 1884)
The alcedo species-group:
- Kretania alcedo (Christoph, 1877)
Taxonomy
editKretania used to be often included in Polyommatus or in Plebejus, but molecular studies have led to reinstate it as a valid genus, now also encompassing species formerly included in Plebejides (i.e. the pylaon species-group), and K. alcedo (formerly in Vacciniina).
References
edit- ^ "Kretania". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Kretania Beuret, 1959". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
External links
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