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Lycaenidae (gossamer-winged butterfly)
Taxonomy
Lycaenidae was named by Leach (1815). It is extant.
It was assigned to Ditrysia by Carpenter (1992); and to Papilionoidea by van Nieukerken et al. (2011), Sohn et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Ditrysia by Carpenter (1992); and to Papilionoidea by van Nieukerken et al. (2011), Sohn et al. (2012).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1815 | Lycaenidae Leach p. 129 |
| 1992 | Lycaenidae Carpenter |
| 2011 | Lycaenidae van Nieukerken et al. p. 216 |
| 2012 | Lycaenidae Sohn et al. p. 63 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Lycaenidae Leach 1815 [gossamer-winged butterfly]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||