Madeleinea
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Madeleinea moza Fig. 5 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
Tribe: | Polyommatini |
Genus: | Madeleinea , 1993 |
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Madeleinea is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. These Andean butterflies are very interesting from a taxonomic standpoint.
This genus was discussed by famous author and lepidopterologist Vladimir Nabokov in 1945. However, he used the name Itylos, which actually refers to a closely related but distinct genus described in 1921. That was not known in his time however, as the relationships of the butterflies discussed by Nabokov were only resolved in 1993. In any case, Nivalis was proposed as a replacement name by Emilio Balletto but for technical reasons[1] turned out to be unavailable. Zsolt Bálint subsequently established the currently-valid name.
The latter researcher, in cooperation with Kurt Johnson, since then described many taxa new to science. To honor the contributions of Nabokov to entomology - chiefly concerning Lycaenidae -, these were often given names referring to the novels of Nabokov, or characters therein.
Selected species[]
At least one but probably more undescribed species are known to exist.
- Bálint & Lamas, 1996 – named after Ardis Hall, a place in Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
- Bálint & Lamas, 1996
- Bálint & Lamas, 1994 – named after Kobalt, a mountain resort in Pale Fire
- Bálint & Lamas, 1996
- Bálint & Johnson, 1997
- Bálint & Lamas, 1994
- (Druce, 1896)
- Benyamini, Bálint & Johnson, 1995
- Bálint, 1993 – named after Dolores Haze, nicknamed "Lolita", and the protagonist of the novel by the same title.
- (Weymer, 1890)
- Bálint & Pyrcz, [2000]
- (Staudinger, [1894])
- Bálint & Johnson, 1995 – named after Nodo, half-brother of Odon in Pale Fire.
- [2] Bálint & Johnson, 1995 – named after Odon, half-brother of Nodo in Pale Fire.
- (Draudt, 1921)
- (Weymer, 1890)
- Benyamini, Bálint & Johnson, 1995
- Bálint & Johnson, 1995 – named after Tintarron, a brand of deep blue glass in Pale Fire
- Bálint & Johnson, 1995 – the specific name is "Nabokov" read backwards
References[]
- ^ "Butterflies and Moths in Nabokov's Published Writings". dezimmer.net.
- ^ Zimmer, Dieter E. (1996). "Excerpts from A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths". Penn State University Libraries.
- Nabokov, Vladimir (1945): Notes on neotropical Plebejinae (Lycaenidae, Lepidoptera). Psyche 52: 1–61. PDF fulltext
- Zimmer, Dieter E. (1996): A Guide to Nabokov’s Butterflies and Moths. Hamburg, Germany
External links[]
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Wikispecies has information related to Madeleinea Species and Subspecies. |
- Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Madeleinea. Version of 2007-JUL-11. Retrieved 2007-DEC-30.
- Photo of male Madeleinea ardisensis
- Another photo of male Madeleinea ardisensis, showing underside
- Photo of female Madeleinea cobaltana
- Polyommatini
- Lycaenidae of South America
- Lycaenidae genera