Biology:Neozephyrus
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Short description: Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae
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| Neozephyrus quercus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Theclini |
| Genus: | Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942 |
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)
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: [1]. (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)
External links
- "Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Wikidata ☰ Q1347868 entry
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