Madeleinea

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Madeleinea
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Madeleinea moza Fig. 5
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Madeleinea
, 1993
Synonyms

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[]

  1. ^ "Butterflies and Moths in Nabokov's Published Writings". dezimmer.net.
  2. ^ 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

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