Neozephyrus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Species in this genus are mainly distributed in East Asia. The larval food plant is alder or - for Neozephyrus quercus - oak .
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Neozephyrus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Species in this genus are mainly distributed in East Asia. The larval food plant is alder or - for Neozephyrus quercus - oak .
==List of species== Neozephyrus coruscans (Leech, 1894) western 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)
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