Kretania hesperica

Species of butterfly

Kretania hesperica

Kretania hesperica in Seitz (78h)

Conservation status

Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Lycaenidae
Genus:  | Kretania
Species:  |

K. hesperica

Binomial name
Kretania hesperica

(Rambur, 1839)

Synonyms

* Lycaena hesperica Rambur, 1840
* Plebejus hesperica
* Plebejus hespericus
* Plebejus pylaon hespericus

Kretania hesperica, the Spanish zephyr blue, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is endemic to Spain. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss. Seitz describes it (as a race of L. sephyrus Friv.) thus - hesperica Rbr. (78 h) is above sky-blue instead of violet-blue; from Spain.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Seitz, A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

* van Swaay, C.; Wynhoff, I.; Wiemers, M.; Katbeh-Bader, A.; Power, A.; Benyamini, D.; Tzirkalli, E.; Balletto, E.; Monteiro, E.; Karaçetin, E.; Franeta, F.; Pe'er, G.; Welch, H.; Thompson, K.; Pamperis, L.; Dapporto, L.; Šašić, M.; López Munguira, M.; Micevski, N.; Dupont, P.; Garcia-Pereira, P.; Moulai, R.; Caruana, R.; Verovnik, R.; Bonelli, S.; Beshkov, S. (2015). "Plebejus hespericus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T39489A53713034. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T39489A53713034.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

Taxon identifiers

Kretania hesperica|

* Wikidata: Q56235744
* Wikispecies: Kretania hesperica
* BOLD: 889996
* GBIF: 10637927
* IUCN: 39489
* NCBI: 2561433

Plebejus hesperica|

* Wikidata: Q5462330
* ARKive: plebejus-hespericus
* CoL: 4K2CT
* EoL: 269930
* Fauna Europaea: 441029
* Fauna Europaea (new): 463d2112-1de4-45ce-9311-ee17243996ca
* GBIF: 5138492
* IRMNG: 10468424
* LepIndex: 205641

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