Hypolycaena shirozui

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Hypolycaena shirozui
Male
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Hypolycaena
Species: H. shirozui
Binomial name
Hypolycaena shirozui
(H. Hayashi, 1981)[1]

Hypolycaena shirozui is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It was described as Chliaria shirozui and moved to Hypolycaena by H. Hayashi, 1984. It is found on Mindanao, Leyte & Samar Is.in the Philippines.[2]


References

  • HAYASHI Hisakazu, 1981: New Lycaenid Butterflies from the Philippines
  • HAYASHI Hisakazu, 1984: New Synonyms, New Status, New Combinations, New Species and New Subspecies of Butterflies from the Philippines and Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Satyridae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae), IWASE, 2: 9-34.
  • TREADAWAY, Colin G. & SCHRÖDER, Heinz G., 2012: Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, Suppl. 20: 1-64.
  1. ↑ Hypolycaena at funet
  2. ↑ On Hypolycaena from Maluku, Indonesia, including the first description of male Hypolycaena asahi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)
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