Plebejus (Albulina) orbitulus chaos Lamas, 2008

Lamas, Gerardo, 2008, Twelve new species-group replacement names and further nomenclatural notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 1848 (1), pp. 47-56 : 50

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1848.1.5
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3C1BEE23-FFE2-6123-FF67-FE88E54DD693
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scientific name	Plebejus (Albulina) orbitulus chaos Lamas
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10. Plebejus (Albulina) orbitulus chaos Lamas , nom. nov.

= Albulina tibetana D'Abrera, 1993: 497 , fig. Junior secondary homonym of Polyommatus (Lycaeides) tibetanus Forster, 1940: 879 View in CoL , pls. 22–23, fig. 12.

Albulina tibetana is currently regarded as a subspecies of Albulina orbitulus (Prunner, 1798) ( Huang, 2001: 73) View in CoL , but generally Albulina Tutt, 1909 View in CoL is treated as a subgenus of Plebejus Kluk, 1780 ( Gorbunov, 2001) View in CoL . Polyommatus (Lycaeides) tibetanus View in CoL is currently regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Plebejus (Aricia) annulata (Elwes, 1906) ( Bálint & Johnson, 1997) .

Etymology: From the Greek chaos, meaning "opening, gap, void, abyss, disorder, confusion".

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Lycaenidae
Genus	Plebejus

Plebejus (Albulina) orbitulus chaos Lamas

Lamas, Gerardo 2008

2008

Albulina tibetana

D'Abrera, B. 1993: 497

Forster, W. 1940: 879

1993

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