Plautella

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
P. c. pambui
P. c. sonchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Plautella
Eliot and Kawazoé, 1983
Species:
P. cossaea
Binomial name
Plautella cossaea
Synonyms

see text

Subspecies
  • 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
  • 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
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References
  1. Plautella at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
  • 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.


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