Neozephyrus

Neozephyrus
Neozephyrus quercus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Theclini
Genus:	Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942

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

• Chrysozephyrus
• Favonius

References

• Biolib
• Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18–22. (in English)
• Koiwaya, S., 2002: Descriptions of seven new species and a new subspecies of Theclini (Lycaenidae) from China and Indo-China. Gekkan-Mushi 373: 5-14. (in English)
• Murayama, S.-I., 1953: On some new Lycaenids from Japan (II). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 4 (2/3): 10–12. Abstract and full article: [1]. (in English)
• Sibatani, A. and S. Ito, 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. (in English)

External links

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