Biology:Prosotas
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Short description: Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae
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| Common lineblue (Prosotas nora) in Hyderabad, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Prosotas H. H. Druce, 1891 |
Prosotas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1891. The species of this genus are found on New Guinea in the Australasian realm and the Indomalayan realm. An overview is provided by Hsu and Yen.[1]
Species in alphabetical order:
- Prosotas aluta (H. Druce, 1873) – banded lineblue
- Prosotas atra Tite, 1963
- Prosotas bhutea (de Nicéville, [1884]) – Bhutya lineblue
- Prosotas datarica (Snellen, 1892)
- Prosotas dilata (Evans, 1932)
- Prosotas dubiosa (Semper, [1879]) – small purple lineblue, tailess lineblue
- Prosotas ella Toxopeus, 1930
- Prosotas elsa (Grose-Smith, 1895)
- Prosotas felderi (Murray, 1874) – Felder's line blue
- Prosotas gracilis (Röber, 1886)
- Prosotas lutea (Martin, 1895)
- Prosotas maputi (Semper, 1889)
- Prosotas nelides (de Nicéville, 1895)
- Prosotas nora (Felder, 1860) – common lineblue
- Prosotas noreia (Felder, 1868) – white-tipped lineblue
- Prosotas norina Toxopeus, 1929
- Prosotas papuana Tite, 1963
- Prosotas pia Toxopeus, 1929 – margined lineblue
- Prosotas talesea Tite, 1963
References
- ↑ Hsu, Yu-Feng & Yen, Shen-Horn (2006). "Immature Biology of Prosotas Reveals an Ovipositing Strategy Unusual in Polyommatine Lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), with a Description of a New Subspecies of P. dubiosa from Taiwan". Zoological Studies. 45 (3): 308-321.
External links
- Savela, Markku (November 29, 2018). "Prosotas Druce, 1891". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/prosotas/. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
- "Taxonomy Browser: Prosotas". http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=2758. Retrieved December 16, 2019. With images.
Further reading
- French Wikipedia has more information about this genus at :fr:Prosotas
Wikidata ☰ Q1346519 entry
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