Biology:Favonius (butterfly)

Short description: Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Favonius
Favonius saphirinus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Theclini
Genus:	Favonius Sibatani & Ito, 1942
Synonyms
Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942 Verity, 1943 Quercusia

Favonius is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Species list

• Subgenus Favonius
  • Favonius cognatus (Staudinger, 1892) north-eastern China and Korea
    • Favonius cognatus cognatus
    • Favonius cognatus ackeryi (Fujioka, 1994)
    • Favonius cognatus latifasciatus (Shirôzu & Hayashi, 1959) Japan
  • Favonius jezoensis (Matsumura, 1915) Sakhalin, Kuriles, Japan (Hokkaido)
    • Favonius jezoensis jezoensis
    • Favonius jezoensis azumajamensis (Kanda, 1994)
    • Favonius jezoensis daisenensis (Tanaka, 1941)
    • Favonius jezoensis magnificans Murayama, 1953
  • Favonius korshunovi (Dubatolov & Sergeev, 1982) northeastern China , Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Korea
    • Favonius korshunovi korshunovi
    • Favonius korshunovi macrocercus (Wakabayashi & Fukuda, 1985)
    • Favonius korshunovi shinichiroi Fujioka, 2003
  • Favonius leechi (Riley, 1939) Sichuan
  • Favonius orientalis (Murray, 1875) Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Kunashir, north-eastern China , Korea, Japan
    • Favonius orientalis orientalis
    • Favonius orientalis shirozui Murayama, 1956
    • Favonius orientalis schischkini Kurentzov, 1970
  • Favonius taxila (Bremer, 1861) north-eastern and central China , Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Korea, Japan
  • Favonius ultramarinus (Fixsen, 1887) north-eastern China , Korea and Japan
    • Favonius ultramarinus ultramarinus Korea
    • Favonius ultramarinus borealis (Murayama, 1953) Japan
    • Favonius ultramarinus hayashii (Shirôzu, 1953) Japan
    • Favonius ultramarinus okumotoi (Koiwaya, 1996)
    • Favonius ultramarinus suffusa (Leech, 1894)
  • Favonius unoi Fujioka, 2003
  • Favonius watanabei Koiwaya, 2002 Myanmar
  • Favonius yuasai Shirôzu, 1948 Japan
    • Favonius yuasai coreensis Myrayama, 1963 South Korea
• Subgenus Tasogare Sugiura, 1993
  • Favonius saphirinus (Staudinger, 1887) northeastern China , Korea, Japan , Amur Oblast, Ussuri
• Incertae sedis
  • Favonius latimarginata Murayama, 1963 Japan
  • Favonius leechina Lamas, 2008

Former species

• Favonius fujisanus Matsumura, 1910 is now Sibataniozephyrus fujisanus (Matsumura, 1910)
• Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) is now Neozephyrus quercus North Africa, Europe and Asia Minor
  • Favonius quercus iberica (Staudinger, 1901) Morocco, Algeria, Spain
  • Favonius quercus interjectus (Verity, 1919)
  • Favonius quercus longicaudatus (Riley, 1921) Turkey, Azerbaijan, western Iran

References

• Fujioka, T., 1994: Zephyrus (Thechlini butterflies) in the world (5). Genus Favonius. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 7: 3-17.
• Fujioka, T., 2003: Descriptions of new species and new subspecies belonging to Tribe Theclini from Myanmar, Vietnam and west China. Gekkan-Mushi 384: 2-10.
• Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18-22.
• Hasegawa, T. 2009: Favonius koreanus, the twelfth species of the genus. Gekkan-Mushi, (461): 9-14. ISSN 0388-418X [in Japanese] [not seen]
• Sibatani, A. and S. Ito, 1942. Beitrag zur systenatik der Theclinae im kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer berucksichtigung der sogenannten gattung Zephyrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.) 15: 33-46, figs.
• images representing Favonius at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Wikidata ☰ Q10824056 entry