Satyrium acaciae abdominalis (Gerhard, [1850]) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): the systematic position on the basis of biological, morphological and molecular genetic studies

Abstract

The study of molecular genetic markers (COI and ITS2), morphological characteristics and biological features of developmental stages reveals that the taxon abdominalis Gerhard, [1850] can be considered only as a subspecies of Satyrium acaciae (Fabricius, 1787).

Keywords

• Satyrium acaciae abdominalis
• molecular genetic markers
• genitals
• developmental stages