Neozephyrus
| Neozephyrus | |
|---|---|
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| Neozephyrus quercus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942 |
Neozephyrus is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Species in this genus are mainly distributed in East Asia. The larval food plant is alder.
List of species
- Neozephyrus coruscans (Leech, 1894) West and Central China
- Neozephyrus dubernardi (Riley, 1939) Yunnan
- Neozephyrus helenae Howarth, 1957 China
- Neozephyrus japonicus (Murray, 1875) Amur Oblast , Ussuri, Northeast China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan
- Neozephyrus quercus Linnaeus, 1758) - Purple Hairstreak
- Neozephyrus taiwanus Wileman, 1908) Taiwan
- Neozephyrus uedai Koiwaya, 2003 Burma
- Neozephyrus asahii Fujioka, 2003 China (Kouy Tcheou)
See also
References
- Biolib
- Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18-22. (English)
- Koiwaya, S., 2002: Descriptions of seven new species and a new subspecies of Theclini (Lycaenidae) from China and Indo-China. Gekkan-Mushi 373: 5-14. (English)
- Murayama, S.-I., 1953: On some new Lycaenids from Japan (II). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 4 (2/3): 10-12. Abstract and full article: . (English)
- Shibatani, A. and S. Ito, 1942. Beitrag zur systenatik der Theclinae im kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer berucksichtigung der sogenannten gattung Zephyrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.) 15: 33-46, figs. (English)
External links
- Funet Taxonomy, distribution