Plautella

Plautella
P. c. pambui
P. c. sonchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Plautella Eliot and Kawazoé, 1983
Species:	P. cossaea
Binomial name
Plautella cossaea (de Nicéville, 1895)[1]
Synonyms
Cyaniris cossaea de Nicéville, 1895 Lycaenopsis cossaea cossaea Acytolepis cossaea cossaea Cyaniris cossaea hegesias Fruhstorfer, 1910 Lycaenopis cossaea hegesias Celastrina cossaea pambui Eliot, 1973 Cyaniris plauta H.H. Druce, 1895 Lycaenopsis plauta Cyaniris cossaea plauta Lycaenopsis cossaea plauta Acytolepis plauta Celastrina plauta Cyaniris cossaea sabatina Fruhstorfer, 1910 Lycaena cossaea (de Nicéville) Piepers & Snellen, 1918 Lycaenopsis cossaea sabatina Acytolepis cossaea sabatina Cyaniris sonchus H.H. Druce, 1896 Lycaenopsis sonchus Cyaniris cossaea distanti Fruhstorfer, 1910 Lycaenopsis (Lycaenopsis) sonchus Celastrina cossaea sonchus

Plautella is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is a monotypic genus containing Plautella cossaea found in the Indomalayan ecozone Malaya, Java, Sumatra and Borneo.

Subspecies

• P. c. cossaea (Sumatra)
• P. c. hegesias (Fruhstorfer, 1910) (Nias)
• P. c. pambui (Eliot, 1973) (southern Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula)
• P. c. plauta (H.H.Druce, 1895) (Borneo)
• P. c. sabatina (Fruhstorfer, 1910) (Java, Sumatra)
• P. c. sonchus (H.H. Druce, 1896) (Borneo, Thailand)

References

1. Plautella at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

• Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group: 1-309, 6 pls. London.
• de Nicéville, L., 1895. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9: 259-321, 4 pls.