Hemiargus

Hemiargus
Ceraunus blue (Hemiargus ceraunus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Hemiargus Hübner, 1818[1]

Hemiargus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in North and South America.

Species

Listed alphabetically:[1][2]

• Hemiargus ceraunus (Fabricius, 1793) – Ceraunus blue
• Hemiargus hanno (Stoll, [1790])
• Hemiargus ramon (Dognin, 1887) – Ramon's blue
• Hemiargus huntingtoni Rindge & Comstock, 1953
• Hemiargus martha (Dognin, 1887)

References

Media related to Hemiargus at Wikimedia Commons

1. Hemiargus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
2. Talavera, G, Lukhtanov, V.A.,Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R. (2012): Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics. 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x