Neozephyrus

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 .

Neozephyrus
Neozephyrus quercus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Theclini
Genus: Neozephyrus
Sibatani & Ito, 1942

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)

See also

References

  • Biolib
  • Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18–22. (in English)
  • Koiwaya, S., 2002: Descriptions of seven new species and a new subspecies of Theclini (Lycaenidae) from China and Indo-China. Gekkan-Mushi 373: 5-14. (in English)
  • Murayama, S.-I., 1953: On some new Lycaenids from Japan (II). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 4 (2/3): 10–12. Abstract and full article: . (in English)
  • Sibatani, A. and S. Ito, 1942. Beitrag zur Systematik der Theclinae im Kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der sogenannten Gattung Zephyrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.) 15: 33–46, figs. (in English)


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