Itylos (butterfly)

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Itylos
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Itylos
Draudt in Seitz, 1921
Synonyms
  • Ithylos Forster, 1955 (lapsus)
  • Ityloides Balletto, 1993
  • Parachilades Nabokov, 1945

Itylos is a

lepidopterologist and author Vladimir Nabokov as Parachilades but had been described already in 1921. Nabokov used the name Itylos for the genus which nowadays is known as Madeleinea
.

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