Esperarge

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: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Satyrinae
Tribus: Satyrini
Subtribus: Parargina
Genus: Esperarge
Species (4): E. cashmirensis – E. climene – E. eversmanni – E. roxelana
Name

Esperarge Nekrutenko, 1988

Type species: Papilio climene Esper, 1783.
Synonymy

Esperia Nekrutenko, 1987, (2): 84 (preocc. Esperia Hübner, 1825 [Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae]).
Type species: Papilio climene Esper, 1783.
Esperella Nekrutenko, 1987, (3): 62 (repl. Esperia Nekrutenko, 1987) (preocc. Esperella Vosmaer, 1885 [Demospongiae]).
Esperarge Nekrutenko, 1988: 50 (repl. Esperella Nekrutenko, 1987).
Marginarge Korb, 2005: 34.
Type species: Hipparchia eversmanni Eversmann, 1847, by original designation.
Urrusia Zhdanko, 2005
Type species: Hipparchia eversmanni Eversmann, 1847.

References
Primary references

Nekrutenko, Y. 1987. [A New Genus of the Subfamily Lethinae (Lepidoptera, Satyridae)]. Vestnik Zoologii 1987(2): 83–85. [In Russian.] PDF. Reference page.
Nekrutenko, Y. 1987. Esperella Nekrutenko, nom. n. pro Esperia Nekrutenko, 1897. Vestnik Zoologii 1987(3): 62. [In Russian.] PDF. Reference page.
Nekrutenko, Y. 1988. Esperarge Nekrutenko (Lepidoptera, Satyridae), nom. n. pro Esperella Nekrutenko, 1897. Vestnik Zoologii 1988(1): 50. [In Russian.] PDF. Reference page.

Additional references

Korb, S.K. 2005. A catalogue of butterflies of the ex-USSR, with remarks on systematics and nomenclature. Korb press, N.Novgorod, 158 pp. 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.
Spitsyn, V.M., Kondakov, A.V., Tomilova, A.A., Karamkhudoeva, M. & Potapov, G.S. 2019. A taxonomic revision of the butterfly genera Esperarge and Kirinia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Ecologica Montenegrina 26: 118–126. PDF. Reference page.