Satyrium (butterfly)

The genus Satyrium contains butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Holarctic ecozone.

Species

Listed alphabetically within species group.

The Satyrium species group:

• Satyrium acadica <small>(Edwards, 1862)</small> – Behr's hairstreak
• Satyrium alcestis <small>(Edwards, 1871)</small> – soapberry hairstreak
• Satyrium auretorum <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small> – gold hunter's hairstreak
• Satyrium behrii <small>(Edwards, 1870)</small> – Behr's hairstreak
• Satyrium calanus <small>(Hübner, 1809)</small> – banded hairstreak
• Satyrium californica <small>(Edwards, 1862)</small> – California hairstreak
• Satyrium caryaevorum <small>(McDunnough, 1942)</small> – hickory hairstreak
• Satyrium curiosolus <small>MacDonald, 2025</small> - curiously isolated hairstreak
• Satyrium edwardsii <small>(Grote and Robinson, 1867)</small> – Edward's hairstreak
• Satyrium fuliginosum <small>(Edwards, 1861)</small> – sooty hairstreak
• Satyrium iyonis <small>(Oxta and Kusunoki, 1957)</small>
• Satyrium kingi <small>(Klots and Clench, 1952)</small> – King's hairstreak
• Satyrium liparops <small>(Boisduval and Leconte, 1833)</small> – striped hairstreak
• Satyrium saepium <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small> – hedgerow hairstreak
• Satyrium semiluna <small>Klots, 1930</small> - sagebrush sooty hairstreak or half-moon hairstreak
• Satyrium sylvinus <small>(Boisduval, 1852)</small> – sylvan hairstreak
• Satyrium tetra <small>(Edwards, 1870)</small> – mountain mahogany hairstreak
• Satyrium titus <small>(Fabricius, 1793)</small> – coral hairstreak

The Armenia species group:

• Satyrium hyrcanicum <small>(Riley, 1939)</small> – Hyrcanian hairstreak
• Satyrium ledereri <small>(Boisduval, 1848)</small> – orange banded hairstreak

The Nordmannia species group:

• Satyrium armena <small>(Rebel, 1901)</small> – Rebel's hairstreak Turkey, Russe-Armenia
• Satyrium abdominalis <small>(Gerhard, 1850)</small> – Gerhard's black hairstreak
• Satyrium acaciae <small>(Fabricius, 1787)</small> – sloe hairstreak
• Satyrium esculi <small>(Hübner, 1804)</small> – false ilex hairstreak
• Satyrium eximia <small>(Fixsen, 1887)</small>
• Satyrium favonius <small>(Smith, 1797)</small> – southern hairstreak
• Satyrium guichardi <small>(Higgins, 1965)</small>
• Satyrium herzi <small>(Fixsen, 1887)</small>
• Satyrium ilavia <small>(Beutenmüller, 1899)</small>
• Satyrium ilicis <small>(Esper, 1779)</small> – ilex hairstreak
• Satyrium latior <small>(Fixsen, 1887)</small>
• Satyrium myrtale <small>(Klug, 1834)</small>
• Satyrium polingi <small>(Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)</small>
• Satyrium pruni <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> – black hairstreak
• Satyrium prunoides <small>(Staudinger, 1887)</small>
• Satyrium runides <small>(Zhdanko, 1990)</small>
• Satyrium spini <small>(Schiffermüller, 1775)</small> – blue spot hairstreak
• Satyrium tateishii <small>(Matsumoto, 2006)</small>
• Satyrium thalia <small>(Leech, 1893)</small>
• Satyrium w-album <small>(Knoch, 1782)</small> – white-letter hairstreak

The Superflua species group:

• Satyrium acaudata <small>Staudinger, 1901</small>
• Satyrium deria <small>(Moore, 1865)</small>
• Satyrium goniopterum <small>Lukhtanov, 1995</small>
• Satyrium khowari <small>Charmeux, 2004</small>
• Satyrium lunulata <small>(Erschoff, 1874)</small>
• Satyrium mirabilis <small>(Erschoff, 1874)</small>
• Satyrium persepolis <small>Eckweiler & ten Hagen, 2003</small>
• Satyrium sassanides <small>(Kollar, [1849])</small> – whiteline hairstreak

Unknown species group:

• Satyrium austrina <small>(Murayama, 1943)</small>
• Satyrium dejeani <small>(Riley, 1939)</small>
• Satyrium esakii <small>(Shirôzu, 1941)</small>
• Satyrium formosana <small>(Matsumura, 1910)</small>
• Satyrium grandis <small>(Felder and Felder, 1862)</small>
• Satyrium inouei <small>(Shirôzu, 1959)</small>
• Satyrium iyonis <small>(Oxta & Kusunoki, 1957)</small>
• Satyrium jebelia <small>Nakamura, 1975</small>
• Satyrium kongmingi <small>Murayama, 1992</small>
• Satyrium kuboi <small>(Chou and Tong, 1994)</small>
• Satyrium lais <small>(Leech, 1892)</small>
• Satyrium mackwoodi <small>(Evans, 1914)</small> – Mackwood's hairstreak
• Satyrium marcidus <small>(Riley, 1921)</small>
• Satyrium mardinus <small>van Oorschot, van den Brink, van Oorschot, 1985</small>
• Satyrium mera <small>(Janson, 1873)</small>
• Satyrium minshanicum <small>Murayama, 1992</small>
• Satyrium neoeximia <small>Murayama, 1992</small>
• Satyrium oenone <small>Leech, [1893]</small>
• Satyrium ornata <small>(Leech, 1890)</small>
• Satyrium patrius <small>(Leech, 1891)</small>
• Satyrium percomis <small>(Leech, 1894)</small>
• Satyrium persimilis <small>(Riley, 1939)</small>
• Satyrium phyllodendri <small>(Elwes, [1882])</small>
• Satyrium pseudopruni <small>Murayama, 1992</small>
• Satyrium redae <small>Bozano, 1993</small>
• Satyrium rubicundula <small>(Leech, 1890)</small>
• Satyrium siguniangshanicum <small>Murayama, 1992</small>
• Satyrium tanakai <small>(Shirôzu, 1942)</small>
• Satyrium v-album <small>(Oberthür, 1886)</small>
• Satyrium watarii <small>(Matsumura, 1927)</small>
• Satyrium xumini <small>Huang, 2001</small>
• Satyrium yangi <small>(Riley, 1939)</small>
• Satyrium volt <small>(Sugiyama, 1993)</small>

Gallery

References

• Biolib
• Images representing Satyrium

Further reading

• ("Le genre Satyrium") provides distribution information in French Wikipedia.

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