Turanana

Turanana
Turanana cytis figured in Horae Societatis entomologicae rossicae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Turanana Bethune-Baker, 1916[1]
Synonyms
Turania Bethune-Baker, 1914 (preocc.)

Turanana is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the east Palearctic from Greece to Central Asia.

• Turanana anisophthalma (Kollar, [1849]) Kopet-Dagh Mountains, West Pamirs, Iran (Elburs Mountains, Zagros Mountains), Afghanistan (Hindu Kush)
• Turanana chitrali Charmeux & Pagès, 2004 Pakistan (Zani Pass)
• Turanana cytis (Christoph, 1877)
• Turanana dushak Dubatolov, 1989 Kopet-Dagh Mountains
• Turanana endymion (Freyer, 1850)
• Turanana grumi Forster, 1937 Pamirs, Northeast Hindu Kush
• Turanana jurileontyi Shchetkin, 1986 Turkenstansky Mountains
• Turanana kugitangi Zhdanko, 1984 Armenia (mountains), Kopet-Dagh Mountains, South Ghissar
• Turanana laspura (Evans, 1932) Turkestansky Mountains, Ghissar, Darvaz, Pamirs, Alai, NorthWest Himalaya
• Turanana mystica Morgun & Tikhonov, 2010 Daghestan
• Turanana panaegides (Staudinger, 1886) Ghissar, West Tian-Shan, Inner Tian-Shan, Alai, Pamirs, Hindu Kush
• Turanana taygetica (Rebel, 1902)

• Charmeux, J.-F. & J.-M. Desse, 2011: Deux nouveaux Polyommatini du Tadjikistan : Turanana laspura panjensis ssp. nova et Agriades pheretiades ishkashimensis ssp. nova (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae). Les Lépidoptéristes de France 20 (48): 7–13.
• Charmeux, J.-F. & J. Pagès, 2004: A new species of the genus Turanana from Pakistan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Phegea 32 (2): 63–69. PDF.
• Coutsis, J.G., 2005: Revision of the Turanana endymion species-group (Lycaenidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 27 (4): 251–272. Full Article: [1].
• Coutsis, J.G., 2006: Additional revisionary actions and corrections in the Turanana endymion species-group (Lycaenidae). Nota Lepidopterologica 29 (1/2): 17–25. Full Article: [2].
• Morgun, D.V. & V.V. Tikhonov, 2010: Turanana mystica spec. nov., a new lycaenid from the Great Caucasus. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Atalanta 41 (3/4): 331–334.

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