Plebejus anna

Plebejus anna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lycaenidae
Genus:Plebejus
Species: P. anna
Binomial name
Plebejus anna
(W H Edwards, 1861)

Plebejus anna, or Anna's blue, is a species of blue in the family of butterflies known as Lycaenidae.[1][2][3] It is found in North America.[1]

The MONA or Hodges number for Plebejus anna is 4374.1.[4]

Anna's blue, Plebejus anna

Subspecies

These six subspecies belong to the species Plebejus anna:

  • Plebejus anna anna (W. H. Edwards, 1861) i g
  • Plebejus anna azureus (J. Emmel, T. Emmel and Mattoon in T. Emmel, 1998) i g
  • Plebejus anna benwarner Scott, 2006 i g
  • Plebejus anna lotis (Lintner, 1878) i
  • Plebejus anna ricei Cross, 1937 i g
  • Plebejus anna vancouverensis (C. Guppy and J. Shepard, 2001) i g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Plebejus anna Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  2. 1 2 "Plebejus anna". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  3. 1 2 "Plebejus anna Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  4. ↑ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Plebejus anna". Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  5. ↑ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-05-01.

Further reading

  • Grote, Aug.R.; Robinson, C.T. (1868). List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
  • Heppner, J.B. (2003). "Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog" (PDF). Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 17. ISSN 0066-8036.
  • Hodges, Ronald W., ed. (1983). Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. ISBN 9780860960164.
  • Opler, Paul A. (1992). A Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-63279-X.
  • Opler, Paul A. (1999). A Field Guide to Western Butterflies (2nd ed.). Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-79151-0.
  • Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 40. ISSN 0022-4324.
  • Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.


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