Nomenklatur

Phengaris Doherty, 1891 (Typusart: Lycaena atroguttata Oberthür, 1876)
= Maculinea Van Eecke, 1915 (Typusart: Papilio alcon Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (synonymisiert von Fric et al. 2007)

Literatur

• Als, T. D., R Vila, N. P. Kandul, D. R. Nash, S.-H. Yen, Y.-F. Hus, A. A. Mignault, J. J. Boomsma & N. E. Pierce 2004: The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in large blue butterflies. – Nature 432: 386–390. 
• Balletto, E., S. Bonelli, J. Settele, J. A. Thomas, R. Verovnik & N. Wahlberg 2010: Case 3508 – Maculinea Van Eecke, 1915 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): proposed precedence over Phengaris Doherty, 1891. – Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 67 (2): 129–132.
• Fric,  Z. K., N. Wahlberg, P. Pech & J. Zrzavy 2007: Phylogeny and classification of the Phengaris–Maculinea clade (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): total evidence and phylogenetic species concepts. – Systematic Entomology 32: 558–567. 
• Pech, P., Z. Fric, M. Konvicka & J. Zrzavy 2004: Phylogeny of Maculinea blues (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) based on morphological and ecological characters: evolution of parasitic myrmecophily. – Cladistics 20: 362–375.
• Pecsenye, K., J. Bereczki, B. Tihanyi, A. Tóth, L. Peregovits & Z. Varga 2007: Genetic differentiation among the Maculinea species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in eastern Central Europe. – Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91: 11–21.