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 <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910</small> (Nias)
- P. c. pambui <small>Eliot, 1973</small> (southern Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula)
- P. c. plauta <small>H.H.Druce, 1895</small> (Borneo)
- P. c. sabatina <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910</small> (Java, Sumatra)
- P. c. sonchus <small>H.H. Druce, 1896</small> (Borneo, Thailand)
Synonyms
- Acytolepis cossaea cossaea
- Acytolepis cossaea sabatina
- Acytolepis plauta
- Celastrina cossaea pambui <small>Eliot, 1973</small>
- Celastrina cossaea sonchus
- Celastrina plauta
- Cyaniris cossaea distanti <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910</small>
- Cyaniris cossaea hegesias <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910</small>
- Cyaniris cossaea plauta
- Cyaniris cossaea sabatina <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910</small>
- Cyaniris cossaea <small>de Nicéville, 1895</small>
- Cyaniris plauta <small>H.H. Druce, 1895</small>
- Cyaniris sonchus <small>H.H. Druce, 1896</small>
- Lycaena cossaea <small>(de Nicéville) Piepers & Snellen, 1918</small>
- Lycaenopis cossaea hegesias
- Lycaenopsis (Lycaenopsis) sonchus
- Lycaenopsis cossaea cossaea
- Lycaenopsis cossaea plauta
- Lycaenopsis cossaea sabatina
- Lycaenopsis plauta
- Lycaenopsis sonchus
References
- , 1983. Blue butterflies of the Lycaenopsis group: 1âÂÂ309, 6 pls. London.
- , 1895. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9: 259âÂÂ321, 4 pls.