Famegana
Sign in to saveFamegana 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.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 367
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Collections
- CSIRO, NMV, QM
- Recorded in
- Australia
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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.
==Subspecies== F. a. alsulus Torres Strait Island, North Australia - New South Wales F. a. lulu (Mathew, 1889) Fiji F. a. kalawarus (Ribbe, 1926) Sulawesi F. a. eggletoni (Corbet, 1941) Hong Kong
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