Zizula

Zizula
Tiny Grass Blue, Zizula gaika
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Zizula
Chapman, 1910
Species

2 sp., see text

Zizula, commonly called grass blues, is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Species[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Subspecies

Notes

References

  1. Zizula, funet.fi
  2. LepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae
  3. Lamas, Gerardo, 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea
  4. Williams, M. Afrotropical Butterflies.
  5. Cowan, C. F., 1965. Comment on the proposed designation of a type species for Pithecops Horsfield, 1828. Z.N (S.) 1675. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 22(4):209-210.
  6. ICZN. Opinion 822, 1967. Pithecops Horsfield, [1828] designation of a type species under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 24(4):216-217.
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