Plebeia pulchra 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: Plautella
Species: (1)
P. cossaea
Name
Plautella Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983: 168.
Type species: Cyaniris cossaea de Nicéville, 1895: 271, by original designation.
References
Eliot, J. N. & Kawazoé, A. 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group. British Museum (Natural History), London. ISBN 0-565-00860-9 Reference page.
de Nicéville, L. 1895. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9(3): 259–321; (4): 366–410, Pls. N–Q. Reference page.
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.
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
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plautella.
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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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