Plautella is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is a monotypic genus containing Plautella cossaea found in the Indomalayan realm Malaya, Java, Sumatra and Borneo.
| Plautella | |
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| P. c. pambui | |
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| P. c. sonchus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Plautella Eliot and Kawazoé, 1983 |
| Species: | P. cossaea
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| Binomial name | |
| Plautella cossaea (de Nicéville, 1895)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
Subspecies
edit- P. c. cossaea (Sumatra)
- P. c. hegesias Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Nias)
- P. c. pambui Eliot, 1973 (southern Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula)
- P. c. plauta H.H.Druce, 1895 (Borneo)
- P. c. sabatina Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Java, Sumatra)
- P. c. sonchus H.H. Druce, 1896 (Borneo, Thailand)
Synonyms
edit- Acytolepis cossaea cossaea
- Acytolepis cossaea sabatina
- Acytolepis plauta
- Celastrina cossaea pambui Eliot, 1973
- Celastrina cossaea sonchus
- Celastrina plauta
- Cyaniris cossaea distanti Fruhstorfer, 1910
- Cyaniris cossaea hegesias Fruhstorfer, 1910
- Cyaniris cossaea plauta
- Cyaniris cossaea sabatina Fruhstorfer, 1910
- Cyaniris cossaea de Nicéville, 1895
- Cyaniris plauta H.H. Druce, 1895
- Cyaniris sonchus H.H. Druce, 1896
- Lycaena cossaea (de Nicéville) Piepers & Snellen, 1918
- Lycaenopis cossaea hegesias
- Lycaenopsis (Lycaenopsis) sonchus
- Lycaenopsis cossaea cossaea
- Lycaenopsis cossaea plauta
- Lycaenopsis cossaea sabatina
- Lycaenopsis plauta
- Lycaenopsis sonchus
References
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- Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group: 1–309, 6 pls. London.
- de Nicéville, L., 1895. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9: 259–321, 4 pls.