Afarsia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia:Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Afarsia
Species: (17)
A. antoninae – A. ashretha – A. hanna – A. iris – A. jurii – A. morgiana – A. omotoi – A. rutilans – A. sieversii

[see Talavera, et al., 2012]
Name

Afarsia Korb & Bolshakov, 2011.

Type species: Cupido morgiana Kirby, 1871: 369.
Synonymy

Farsia Zhdanko, 1992, nec Farsia Amsel, 1961, Pyralidae. [replacement name].

References

Kirby, W.F. 1871. A synonymic catalogue of the diurnal lepidoptera. Van Voorst, London, 8vo, 690pp. BHL. ibid. 1877 Supplement. BHL Reference page.
Korb, S.K. & Bolshakov, L.V. 2011. A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated. Eversmannia, Supplement 2. Abstract. Reference page.
Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R., 2013. Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics 29(2): 166–192. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x Reference page.
Zhdanko, A.B., 1992. Farsia subgen. n. - a new subgenus of the genus Vacciniina (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera) from the Middle Asia. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 71 (8): 151-154, ill. Reference page.

Afarsia is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.It has been synonymized with Albulina by some authors, but studies on the molecular phylogenetics of Polyommatini have led to its treatment as an independent genus, which appears as the sister group of the genus Kretania sensu lato, with weak support.
Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

Afarsia antoninae (Lukhtanov, 1999) Tian Shan
Afarsia ashretha (Evans, 1925) Tadjikistan, Pakistan
Afarsia hanna (Evans, 1932) Tadjikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan.
Afarsia iris (Lang, 1884) sometimes considered a subspecies of Afarsia sieversii.
Afarsia jurii (Tshikolovets, 1997) sometimes considered a subspecies of Afarsia rutilans.
Afarsia morgiana (Kirby, 1871) Armenia, Turkey, Iran
Afarsia neoiris (Tshikolovets, 1997) Tadjikistan
Afarsia omotoi (Forster, 1972) Afghanistan
Afarsia rutilans (Staudinger, 1886) Alay mountains
Afarsia sieversii (Christoph, 1873) Iran, Turkestan, Pamir

References

Afarsia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms