Favonius (butterfly) explained
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
- Subgenus Tasogare Sugiura, 1993
- 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
- , 1994: Zephyrus (Thechlini butterflies) in the world (5). Genus Favonius. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 7: 3-17.
- , 2003: Descriptions of new species and new subspecies belonging to Tribe Theclini from Myanmar, Vietnam and west China. Gekkan-Mushi 384: 2-10.
- , 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18-22.
- 2009: Favonius koreanus, the twelfth species of the genus. Gekkan-Mushi, (461): 9-14. [in Japanese] [not seen]
- and, 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
