Neozephyrus Explained
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
- , 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18–22.
- , 2002: Descriptions of seven new species and a new subspecies of Theclini (Lycaenidae) from China and Indo-China. Gekkan-Mushi 373: 5-14.
- , 1953: On some new Lycaenids from Japan (II). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 4 (2/3): 10–12. Abstract and full article: http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110007706217/en.
- and, 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.
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