''Plautella'' is a genus of butterflies in the family

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. It is a

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genus containing ''Plautella cossaea'' found in the Indomalayan realm

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, Sumatra and

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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

* , 1983. ''Blue butterflies of the ''Lycaenopsis'' group'': 1–309, 6 pls. London. *, 1895. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region. ''The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 9: 259–321, 4 pls. Polyommatini Butterflies of Borneo Monotypic butterfly genera Lycaenidae genera {{Polyommatini-stub