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Plautella
P. c. pambui
P. c. sonchus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Plautella Eliot and Kawazoé, 1983
Species:	P. cossaea
Binomial name
Plautella cossaea (de Nicéville, 1895)
Synonyms
see text

Plautella is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is a monotypic genus containing Plautella cossaea found in the Indomalayan realm 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)

Synonyms

• Acytolepis cossaea cossaea
• Acytolepis cossaea sabatina
• Acytolepis plauta
• Celastrina cossaea pambui Eliot, 1973
• Celastrina cossaea sonchus
• Celastrina plauta
• Cyaniris cossaea distanti Fruhstorfer, 1910
• Cyaniris cossaea hegesias Fruhstorfer, 1910
• Cyaniris cossaea plauta
• Cyaniris cossaea sabatina Fruhstorfer, 1910
• Cyaniris cossaea de Nicéville, 1895
• Cyaniris plauta H.H. Druce, 1895
• Cyaniris sonchus H.H. Druce, 1896
• Lycaena cossaea (de Nicéville) Piepers & Snellen, 1918
• Lycaenopis cossaea hegesias
• Lycaenopsis (Lycaenopsis) sonchus
• Lycaenopsis cossaea cossaea
• Lycaenopsis cossaea plauta
• Lycaenopsis cossaea sabatina
• Lycaenopsis plauta
• Lycaenopsis sonchus

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.

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