Lysandra: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Polyommatus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Lysandra
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lysandra
Lysandra (Greek: Λυσάνδρα, meaning "Liberator, Emancipator"; lived 281 BC) was a Queen of Macedonia, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter to Eurydice or Berenice.
She was married first to her maternal cousin Alexander, one of the sons of Cassander, King of Macedonia. After Alexander’s death, Lysandra married her other maternal cousin Agathocles, the son of Lysimachus and Nicaea of Macedon. By this second marriage (which took place, according to Pausanias, after the return of Lysimachus from his expedition against the Getae, 291 BC) she had several children, with whom and with Agathocles' paternal half-brother Alexander she fled to Asia after the murder of her husband by Lysimachus, at the instigation of Agathocles’ stepmother Arsinoe II, and besought assistance from Seleucus I Nicator. The latter in consequence marched against Lysimachus, who was defeated and slain in the Battle of Corupedium, 281 BC. From an expression of Pausanias, it appears that Lysandra must at this time have accompanied Seleucus I, and was possessed of much influence, but in the confusion that followed the death of Seleucus I a few months after there is no further record either of her or her children.
...Lysandra in languages:
- Czech
- modrásek
- Modern Greek
- Λυσάνδρα
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Agrodiaetus
- Lysandra
- Plebicula escheri
- Polyommatus abdon
- Polyommatus achaemenes
- Polyommatus actinides
- Polyommatus aedon
- Polyommatus afghanica
- Polyommatus ahmadi
- Polyommatus alcedo
- Polyommatus aloisi
- Polyommatus alticola
- Polyommatus altivagans
- Polyommatus amor
- Polyommatus amorata
- Polyommatus annamaria
- Polyommatus annamariae
- Polyommatus anthea
- Polyommatus anticarmon
- Polyommatus antidolus
- Polyommatus ariana
- Polyommatus aroaniensis
- Polyommatus aserbeidschanus
- Polyommatus atlantica
- Polyommatus australorossicus
- Polyommatus baeticus
- Polyommatus baytopi
- Polyommatus bollandi
- Polyommatus budashkini
- Polyommatus buzulmavi
- Polyommatus caelestissimus
- Polyommatus celina
- Polyommatus cilicius
- Polyommatus cornelia
- Polyommatus cyaneus
- Polyommatus dagestanicus
- Polyommatus dama
- Polyommatus damocles
- Polyommatus damon
- Polyommatus damone
- Polyommatus daphnis
- Polyommatus darius
- Polyommatus demavendi
- Polyommatus dolus
- Polyommatus dorylas
- Polyommatus elbursicus
- Polyommatus elena
- Polyommatus eleniae
- Polyommatus eriwanensis
- Polyommatus eroides
- Polyommatus eros
- Polyommatus erotides
- Polyommatus exuberans
- Polyommatus fabressei
- Polyommatus fatima
- Polyommatus forresti
- Polyommatus fulgens
- Polyommatus galloi
- Polyommatus golgus
- Polyommatus guezelmavi
- Polyommatus hopfferi
- Polyommatus huberti
- Polyommatus humedasae
- Polyommatus icadius
- Polyommatus icarius
- Polyommatus icarus
- Polyommatus igisizilim
- Polyommatus iphicarmon
- Polyommatus iphigenia
- Polyommatus isauricus
- Polyommatus juldusus
- Polyommatus juno
- Polyommatus kamtshadalis
- Polyommatus kashgharensis
- Polyommatus lanka
- Polyommatus lycius
- Polyommatus magnificus
- Polyommatus maraschi
- Polyommatus marcida
- Polyommatus masulensis
- Polyommatus menalcas
- Polyommatus menelaos
- Polyommatus merhaba
- Polyommatus mithridates
- Polyommatus myrrha
- Polyommatus nepalensis
- Polyommatus nephohiptamenos
- Polyommatus ninae
- Polyommatus nivescens
- Polyommatus orphicus
- Polyommatus pelopi
- Polyommatus phyllides
- Polyommatus pierceae
- Polyommatus pierinoi
- Polyommatus pljushtchi
- Polyommatus poseidon
- Polyommatus pseuderos
- Polyommatus putnami
- Polyommatus sagratrox
- Polyommatus sarta
- Polyommatus schuriani
- Polyommatus sertavulensis
- Polyommatus shamil
- Polyommatus sigberti
- Polyommatus stoliczkana
- Polyommatus surakovi
- Polyommatus theresiae
- Polyommatus timfristos
- Polyommatus turcicola
- Polyommatus turcicus
- Polyommatus vanensis
- Polyommatus venus
- Polyommatus violetae
- Polyommatus wagneri
- Polyommatus yurinekrutenko
- Polyommatus zapvadi
- Polyommatus zarathustra



























































































































































