Catopyrops

Catopyrops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.[1][2][3] The range extends from India to the Malay Archipelago and the Solomon Islands.

Catopyrops
Catopyrops ancyra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Catopyrops Toxopeus, 1929

Species

• Catopyrops ancyra (Felder, 1860) – many subspecies
• Catopyrops florinda (Butler, 1877)
• Catopyrops holtra Parsons, 1986 New Britain
• Catopyrops keiria (Druce, 1891)
• Catopyrops kokopona (Ribbe, 1899)
• Catopyrops nebulosa (Druce, 1892) New Hebrides
• Catopyrops rita (Grose-Smith, 1895)
• Catopyrops zyx Parsons, 1986 Solomon Islands, New Guinea

References

1. Corbet, A. Steven (2009). "A Revision of the Malayan Species of the Nacaduba Group of Genera (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 87 (5): 125–146. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1938.tb00731.x. ISSN 0035-8894.
2. New, T. R.; Bush, M. B.; Thornton, I. W. B.; Sudarman, H. K. (1988). "The Butterfly Fauna of the Krakatau Islands After a Century of Colonization". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 322 (1211): 445–457. doi:10.1098/rstb.1988.0137. ISSN 0962-8436.
3. CASSIDY, Alan C. (1990). "On Nacaduba and Allied Genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Sulawesi Region" (PDF). Tyô to Ga. 41 (4): 227–241. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-14. Retrieved 2012-09-13.

External links

• "Catopyrops Toxopeus, 1929" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Images representing Catopyrops at Bold

Further reading

• French Wikipedia provides additional subspecies and distribution information at "Le genre Catopyrops".