Lycaenidae genera

Orthomiella is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm and Yunnan in the Palearctic realm.

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Zinaspa is an Indomalayan genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Rhinelephas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Euphilotes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which consists of a number of species found in western North America. Some of the species are endangered, such as the Smith's blue, Euphilotes enoptes smithi.

Tajuria is an Indomalayan genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Theclopsis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical realm.

Cyclargus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It was split off from the genus Hemiargus in 1948 by Vladimir Nabokov, although many lepidopterists have not accepted the new genus as valid. Nabokov designated C. ammon (Lucas's blue, from Cuba) as the type species for the genus, and included C. dominica (Jamaican blue, from Jamaica), C. thomasi (Thomas's blue, from Florida, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola), C. woodruffi (from the Virgin Islands) and C. erembis (from the Cayman Islands, synonym of C. ammon erembis). In 1992 K. Johnston and Matusik described C. sorpresus and

Liphyra is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It was first described by John O. Westwood in 1864. The larvae are predatory and feed on ant larvae. They are among the largest species of lycaenid butterflies. There are several species in the genus which are found in Asia and Australia. In the genus Liphyra, the antenna tapers gradually.

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Zizula, commonly called grass blues, is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Austrozephyrus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The three species are found in the Indomalayan realm.

thumb|Female Heliophorus epicles|H. epicles, [[West Bengal, India]] Heliophorus is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. It is distributed in tropical Asia.

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Celmia is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Neaveia is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae which is endemic to the Afrotropical realm. Its only species, Neaveia lamborni, the pierine blue, is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Both the genus and species were first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1910. The habitat consists of forests and open areas.

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Artopoetes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is a small east Asian genus of tailless hairstreaks.

Ptox is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

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Candalides is a large genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Australasian realm.

Michaelus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The members (species) of this genus are found in the Neotropical realm.

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Tongeia is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in temperate East Asia. Most species are endemic to China and many species are recently described from China. The best known species is the more widely distributed Tongeia fischeri (Fischer's blue).

Brevianta is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical realm.

Cupidopsis is a genus of Afrotropical butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Zeritis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Afrotropical realm.

Dicya is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical realm.

Ostrinotes is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Horaga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae which John Nevill Eliot, 1973, places in the tribe Horagini of the subfamily Theclinae. The wings are blue, purple or brown above, with broad black costal and distal margins and usually a white discal spot on the forewing. The female is dingier than the male. The underside is ochreous, or ochreous brown, with a dark postdiscal line on both wings outwardly edged with white, this edging forming a broad white band not continued much above vein 6, on the forewing, but narrower and outwardly diffuse on the hindwing. The hindwing bears filame

Cyaniris is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Catochrysops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan and the Australasian realms.

Chilades, commonly called jewel blues, is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Old World and in Australia.

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Arumecla is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Psychonotis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Australasian realm.

thumb| Pseudodipsas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae with six species, two of which are unnamed. They are found in areas of Australia and New Guinea.

Penaincisalia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It contains the following species, all found in the Neotropical realm:

Dapidodigma is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. The two species are found in the Afrotropical realm.

Janthecla is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Iratsume is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. Its single species is Iratsume orsedice.

Chalybs is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Thrix is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae first described by William Doherty in 1891. Its one species is Thrix scopula, which was first described by Herbert Druce in 1873. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (in Borneo, Thailand, Sumatra and Peninsular Malaya).

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Aloeides, commonly called coppers, is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Most can be found in South Africa (49 species), but a few species occur as far north as Kenya (8 species).

Talicada is an Indomalayan genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Teratozephyrus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.(Theclini) It is an East Palearctic (China, Taiwan, North Indochina) species associated with Quercus.

Kretania is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Chaetoprocta is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Micandra is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Hypochlorosis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found on New Guinea and in the Moluccas in the Australasian realm.

Melanolycaena is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Eresiomera is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is sometimes treated as a synonym of Pseuderesia.

Pseudonacaduba is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Brangas is a genus of hairstreaks in the butterfly family Lycaenidae, found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. There are about 16 described species in Brangas.

Acrodipsas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. There are ten species in this genus all endemic to the Australasian realm: Acrodipsas arcana - black-veined ant-blue Acrodipsas aurata - golden ant-blue Acrodipsas brisbanensis - bronze ant-blue Acrodipsas cuprea - copper ant-blue Acrodipsas decima - Decima ant-blue Acrodipsas hirtipes - black ant-blue Acrodipsas illidgei - Illidge's ant-blue, mangrove ant-blue Acrodipsas melania - grey ant-blue Acrodipsas mortoni - brown ant-blue Acrodipsas myrmecophila - small ant-blue Acrodipsas violacea - violet ant-blue

Neopithecops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Eumedonia is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae first described by Walter Forster in 1938.