• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  English	Anatolian Zephyr Blue
  Türkçe	Anadolu Esmergözü
  Русский	Голубянка модика

• Synonyms and other combinations

• Latin name	Author
  Kretania modicus	Vérity, 1935
  Plebejus modicus	Vérity, 1935
  Plebejus sephirus modica	Vérity, 1935

• Plebejus (Plebejides) modica 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)
  Plebejides klausrosei	(Bálint, [1993])
  Plebejides patriarcha	(Bálint, [1992])
  Plebejides usbekus	(Forster, 1939)
  Plebejus zephyrinus	(Christoph, 1884)
  Plebejus (Plebejides) modica	(Vérity, 1935)
  Plebejus (Plebejides) stekolnikovi	Stradomsky & Tikhonov, 2015

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	Lepidoptera Caucasi	Валентин Тихонов

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