Athamanthia

Athamanthia is an Eastern Palearctic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.^[2] Athamanthia is differentiated from Lycaena by characters of the male genitalia.

Athamanthia
Athamanthia dimorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Lycaeninae
Genus:	Athamanthia Zhdanko, 1983[1]

Species

• Athamanthia athamantis (Eversmann, 1854) Turan, Dzhungarsky Alatau
• Athamanthia rushanica Zhdanko, 1990 western Pamirs, Turan, Gissar Range
• Athamanthia sogdiana Zhdanko, 1990 southern Turkmenistan (Badhyz State Nature Reserve), southern Gissar Range
• Athamanthia churkini Zhdanko, 2000 Keke-Meren River, Kirghizia 1650 m
• Athamanthia phoenicura (Lederer, [1870]) Turkmenia (Kopet Dag), southern Armenia, Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan
• Athamanthia dimorpha (Staudinger, 1881) northern Iran, northern and western Tian-Shan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Saur Mountains, Tarbagatai Mountains, southern Altay Mountains, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, southwestern Mongolia
• Athamanthia japhetica (Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1983) Azerbaijan
• Athamanthia issykkuli Zhdanko, 1990 Kyrgyzstan (Issyk-kul)
• Athamanthia eitschbergeri Lukhtanov, 1993 Kyrgyzstan (Issyk-Kul lake)
• Athamanthia namanganica Lukhtanov, 2000 Kyrgyzstan (Tschatkal, western Tian Shan)
• Athamanthia zhdankoi Lukhtanov, 2000 Kyrgyzstan (Sarykamysch Mountains) 1600 m
• Athamanthia dilutior (Staudinger, 1881) Kyrgyzstan
• Athamanthia alexandra (Püngeler, 1901) Uzbekistan (Nuratau Mountains), Syr Darya, Dzhungarsky Alatau

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