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Agrodiaetus damon
Damon blue
Grünblauer Bläuling
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Talavera et al. (2013)
propose to lump together Agrodiaetus and Polyommatus s.str. into one
large Polyommatus s.l., based on the young age of the split between
these lineages. This large Polyommatus would then include also the
present species. However, the internal structure of the large
Polyommatus genus in Talavera et al. (2013) is not well resolved, especially the split between Agrodiaetus and Polyommatus s.str. and the root of the group containing Meleageria daphnis
is not statistically significant (see their figure 1). In addition, the
position of Meleageria daphnis is not congruent with its position in
other recent molecular phylogenies. Thus, I regard the internal
structure of Polyommatus s.l. as currently unresolved and refrain from
changing the current taxonomy: I retain Polyommatus s. str. and
Agrodiaetus as two separate genera. The position of Meleageria as either
more closely related to Polyommatus s.str. or to Agrodiaetus is
currently unclear and I therefore retain it provisionally as a separate
genus.
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