• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  English	Spanish zephyr blue
  Español	Niña del Astrágalo
  Nederlands	Spaans saffierblauwtje

• Synonyms and other combinations

• Latin name	Author
  Plebejus hesperica	Rambur, 1839
  Plebejus pylaon hespericus	Rambur, 1839
  Polyommatus hespericus	Rambur, 1839

• Kretania hespericus is a member of the clade Kretania pylaon:

• Species	Author
  Kretania allardii	(Oberthür, 1874)
  Kretania beani	Bálint & Johnson, 1997
  Kretania hespericus	(Rambur, 1839)
  Kretania martini	(Allard, 1867)
  Kretania nichollae	(Elwes, 1901)
  Kretania philbyi	(Graves, 1925)
  Kretania pylaon	(Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1832)
  Kretania sephirus	(Frivaldszky, 1835)
  Kretania trappi	(Vérity, 1927)
  Kretania zephyrinus	(Christoph, 1884)
  Plebejides klausrosei	(Bálint, [1993])
  Plebejides patriarcha	(Bálint, [1992])
  Plebejides usbekus	(Forster, 1939)
  Plebejus (Plebejides) modica	(Vérity, 1935)
  Plebejus (Plebejides) stekolnikovi	Stradomsky & Tikhonov, 2015

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	Lepiforum e. V.
  	Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa	Paolo Mazzei
  	The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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