Hypolycaena shirozui
| Hypolycaena shirozui | |
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| 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.