Favonius

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Theclinae
Tribus: Theclini
Genus: Favonius
Subgenera: F. (Favonius) – F. (Tasogare)
Overview of species

F. cognatus – F. jezoensis – F. korshunovi – F. leechina – F. orientalis – F. saphirinus – F. taxila – F. ultramarinus – F. watanabei – F. yuasai
Name

Favonius Sibatani et Ito, 1942.

Type species: Dipsas orientalis Murray, 1874
References

Fujioka, T., 1994. Zephyrus (Theclini butterflies) in the world (5). Genus: Favonius. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 7: 3–17. Reference page.
Fujioka, T. 2003. Descriptions of new species and new subspecies belonging to Tribe Theclini from Myanmar, Vietnam and west China. Gekkan-Mushi 384: 2–10. Reference page.
Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Asia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18-22. Reference page.
Hasegawa, T. 2009. Favonius koreanus, the twelfth species of the genus. Gekkan-Mushi (461): 9–14. ISSN: 0388-418X [in Japanese]. Reference page.
Sibatani, A. & Ito, S., 1942. Beitrag zur Systematik der Theclinae im Kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der sogenannten Gattung Zephyrus (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Tenthredo (3): 299-334. Reference page.

Vernacular names
日本語: オオミドリシジミ属

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) Szechwan
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
Favonius yuasai coreensis Myrayama, 1963 South Korea
Subgenus Tasogare Sugiura, 1993
Favonius saphirinus (Staudinger, 1887) northeastern China, Korea, Japan, Amur Oblast, Ussuri
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
"Favonius Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Fujioka, T., 1994: Zephyrus (Thechlini butterflies) in the world (5). Genus: Favonius. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 7: 3-17.
Fujioka, T., 2003: Descriptions of new species and new subspecies belonging to Tribe Theclini from Myanmar, Vietnam and west China. Gekkan-Mushi 384: 2-10.
Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18-22.
Hasegawa, T. 2009: Favonius koreanus, the twelfth species of the genus. Gekkan-Mushi, (461): 9-14. ISSN 0388-418X [in Japanese] [not seen]
Sibatani, A. and S. Ito, 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