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Pseudozizeeria
Pseudozizeeria is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. This genus is monotypic, consisting of only one species, Pseudozizeeria maha, which is found in the Indomalayan and Palearctic realms.
Megisba malaya
species of insect
Praephilotes
Praephilotes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Neopithecops
Neopithecops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Freyeria putli
species of insect
Pseudochrysops bornoi
Pseudochrysops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. This genus is monotypic, consisting of only one species, Pseudochrysops bornoi, which is endemic to the Greater Antilles (being found on Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Cuba). It has only been found in Cuba at Yateritas, Guantánamo Province.
Oraidium barberae
species of insect
Tuxentius melaena
species of insect
Hemiargus hanno
species of insect
Pseudolucia
Pseudolucia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are predominantly found in parts of South America, south of Brazil. In many of the southern and western regions, stretching from Chile to Uruguay, habitat loss and pollution have led to near extinction.
Thaumaina
Thaumaina is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic, containing the single species Thaumaina uranothauma.
Neolysandra coelestina
species of insect
Rysops scintilla
species of insect
Famegana
Famegana is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae erected by John Nevill Eliot in 1973. Its single species, Famegana alsulus, the black-spotted grass blue, was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1869. It is found in the Australasian realm.
Paralycaeides
Paralycaeides is a Neotropical genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. ==Species== Paralycaeides inconspicua (Draudt, 1921) Central and South Peru (high Andes) Paralycaeides shade Bálint, 1993 Central Peru (high Andes) Paralycaeides vapa (Staudinger, 1894) South Peru, Bolivia, Northeast Chile, Argentina, North Patagonia (high Andes) ==References==
Oboronia
Oboronia is an Afrotropical genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Upolampes
Upolampes is a monotypic genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Its single species, Upolampes evena, is found in New Guinea.
Luthrodes
Luthrodes is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1895. Its species are found in Asia and in Oceania.
Tuxentius
Tuxentius is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as pied Pierrots or pies. Contained in this genus are the African species formerly placed in Castalius, except the blue-eyed Pierrot (sometimes called blue pied Pierrot) which is separated in Zintha.
Bothrinia
Bothrinia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Known from southern China, India (Assam) and northern Thailand.
Ionolyce helicon
species of insect
Callictita
Callictita is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are endemic to New Guinea (Australasian realm).
Plebulina emigdionis
species of insect
Alpherakya devanica
species of insect
Tuxentius calice
species of insect
Erysichton lineata
species of insect
Otnjukovia
Otnjukovia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic containing only Otnjukovia tatjana (Zhdanko, 1984) from Kazakhstan (Zhetyzhol Mountains, Almaty ). ==References== Zhdanko, A. B., 1984. A review of the genus Turanana Bethune-Baker, with descriptions of Turanana tatjana sp. n. and Otaria subgenus, from Kazakhstan. Trudy Zool. inst. Leningrad 122: 98–105. Ugelvig, L.V., Vila, R., Pierce, N.E. & Nash, D.R., 2011. A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with special focus on the Phengaris–Maculinea clade. Molecular Phylogenetics a
Echinargus isola
species of butterfly
Petrelaea dana
species of insect
Phlyaria
Phlyaria is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic, consisting of only one species, Phlyaria cyara, the pied blue, which is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.
Rimisia miris
Species of butterfly
Hemiargus ceraunus
species of insect
Theclinesthes miskini
species of insect
Orthomiella pontis
species of insect
Freyeria
Freyeria is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Ludwig Georg Courvoisier in 1920.
Pistoria
Pistoria is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The single species of this monotypic genus, Pistoria nigropunctata, is found in New Guinea (Australasian realm).
Pamiria
Pamiria is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. thumb|left|220px| Pamiria farazi Paratype ==Species== Listed alphabetically:
Jameela albiplaga
species of insect
Praephilotes anthracias
species of insect
Pseudonacaduba sichela
species of insect
Turanana endymion
species of insect
Philotiella speciosa
species of insect
Bothrinia chennellii
species of insect
Neolysandra
Neolysandra is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Sancterila
Sancterila is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Paraduba owgarra
species of insect
Rueckbeilia
Rueckbeilia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, first described in 2013.
Zizula cyna
species of insect
Zintha
Zintha is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic, with the only species being Zintha hintza, the blue-eyed Pierrot, blue pied Pierrot or Hintza blue. The pied Pierrots proper are the closely related genus Tuxentius, however, and like Zintha they were formerly included in Castalius.
Actizera lucida
species of insect
Zizina antanossa
species of butterfly
Actizera stellata
species of insect
Cyaniris bellis
species of insect
Turanana cytis
species of insect
Callictita cyara
species of insect
Jameela
Jameela is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Callenya melaena
species of insect
Patricius
genus of insects
Theclinesthes albocincta
species of insect
Sahulana
thumb | right Sahulana is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Toshiya Hirowatari in 1992. It is monotypic, containing only the species Sahulana scintillata, which was first described by Thomas Pennington Lucas in 1889. It is found on Torres Strait Island and in the Australian state of New South Wales. Larval food plants include Acacia , Alectryon and Cupaniopsis (flower buds).