Neozephyrus

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 <small>(Leech, 1894)</small> western and central China
• Neozephyrus dubernardi <small>(Riley, 1939)</small> Yunnan
• Neozephyrus helenae <small>Howarth, 1957</small> China
• Neozephyrus japonicus <small>(Murray, 1875)</small> Amur Oblast, Ussuri, northeast China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan
• Neozephyrus quercus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> - purple hairstreak
• Neozephyrus taiwanus <small>(Wileman, 1908)</small> Taiwan
• Neozephyrus uedai <small>Koiwaya, 2003</small> Burma
• Neozephyrus asahii <small>Fujioka, 2003</small> China (Kouy Tcheou)

See also

• Chrysozephyrus
• Favonius

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.

External links

• "Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms