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
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