Madeleinea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
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: Madeleinea
Species: M. ardisensis – M. bella – M. cobaltana – M. colca – M. gradoslamasi – M. huascarana – M. koa – M. lea – M. lolita – M. ludicra – M. malvasa – M. moza – M. nodo – M. pacis – M. pelorias – M. sigal – M. tintarrona – M. vokoban
Name

Madeleinea Bálint, 1993
Synonyms

Nivalis Balletto, 1993

References
Primary references

Balletto, E. 1993. On some new genus-group and species-group names of Andean Polyommatini (Lepidoptera). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 124(3): 231–243. Reference page.

Additional references

Bálint, Zs., 1999: A new species of Madeleinea (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Colombia, with synonymy and notes for other species occurring in the high Andes. Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 91: 87–95.
Bálint, Zs. & K. Johnson 1995: Description of a new Madeleinea (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) species from Ecuador. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 41 (1): 25–34.
Bálint, Zs. & G. Lamas, 1994: Polyommatine lycaenids of the Oreal Biome in the Neotropics, Part III: Descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 40 (3): 231–240.
Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol. 5A. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439p. Reference page.

Madeleinea is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. These Andean butterflies are very interesting from a taxonomic standpoint.

This genus was discussed by famous author and lepidopterologist Vladimir Nabokov in 1945. However, he used the name Itylos, which actually refers to a closely related but distinct genus described in 1921. That was not known in his time however, as the relationships of the butterflies discussed by Nabokov were only resolved in 1993. In any case, Nivalis was proposed as a replacement name by Emilio Balletto but for technical reasons[1] turned out to be unavailable. Zsolt Bálint subsequently established the currently-valid name.

The latter researcher, in cooperation with Kurt Johnson, since then described many taxa new to science. To honor the contributions of Nabokov to entomology - chiefly concerning Lycaenidae -, these were often given names referring to the novels of Nabokov, or characters therein.
Selected species

At least one but probably more undescribed species are known to exist.

Madeleinea ardisensis Bálint & Lamas, 1996 – named after Ardis Hall, a place in Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
Madeleinea bella Bálint & Lamas, 1996
Madeleinea cobaltana Bálint & Lamas, 1994 – named after Kobalt, a mountain resort in Pale Fire
Madeleinea colca Bálint & Lamas, 1996
Madeleinea gradoslamasi Bálint & Johnson, 1997
Madeleinea huascarana Bálint & Lamas, 1994
Madeleinea koa (Druce, 1896)
Madeleinea lea Benyamini, Bálint & Johnson, 1995
Madeleinea lolita Bálint, 1993 – named after Dolores Haze, nicknamed "Lolita", and the protagonist of the novel by the same title.
Madeleinea ludicra (Weymer, 1890)
Madeleinea malvasa Bálint & Pyrcz, [2000]
Madeleinea moza (Staudinger, [1894])
Madeleinea nodo Bálint & Johnson, 1995 – named after Nodo, half-brother of Odon in Pale Fire.
Madeleinea odon[2] Bálint & Johnson, 1995 – named after Odon, half-brother of Nodo in Pale Fire.
Madeleinea pacis (Draudt, 1921)
Madeleinea pelorias (Weymer, 1890)
Madeleinea sigal Benyamini, Bálint & Johnson, 1995
Madeleinea tintarrona Bálint & Johnson, 1995 – named after Tintarron, a brand of deep blue glass in Pale Fire
Madeleinea vokoban Bálint & Johnson, 1995 – the specific name is "Nabokov" read backwards

References

"Butterflies and Moths in Nabokov's Published Writings". dezimmer.net.

Zimmer, Dieter E. (1996). "Excerpts from A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths". Penn State University Libraries.

Nabokov, Vladimir (1945): Notes on neotropical Plebejinae (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera). Psyche 52: 1–61. PDF fulltext
Zimmer, Dieter E. (1996): A Guide to Nabokov’s Butterflies and Moths. Hamburg, Germany