Hypolycaena

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Hypolycaenini
Genus: Hypolycaena
Species (Afrotropical): H. amanica – H. anara – H. antifaunus – H. auricostalis – H. buxtoni – H. clenchi – H. coerulea – H. condamini – H. dubia – H. hatita – H. jacksoni – H. kadiskos – H. kakumi – H. lebona – H. liara – H. lochmophila – H. naara – H. nigra – H. ogadenensis – H. pachalica – H. philippus – H. schubotzi – H. scintillans – H. similis – H. suda – H. tearei

Species (Oriental): H. alcestis – H. amabilis – H. amasa – H. asahi – H. balua – H. daawiae –H. danis – H. erylus – H. irawana – H. ithna – H. kina – H. merguia – H. narada – H. nilgirica – H. othona – H. pahanga – H. periphorbas – H. phorbas – H. schroederi – H. shirozui – H. sipylus – H. sohmai – H. thecloides – H. tora – H. toshikoae – H. umbrata – H. vanavasa – H. xenia
Name

Hypolycaena C. & R. Felder, (1862).

Type Species: Myrina sipylus (Felder, C. 1860), by subsequent designation (Scudder, 1875. Proc. Amer. Acad. Art. Sci. 10: 195 (91-293).)
Synonymy

Tatura Butler, 1888. Type-species: Thecla lebena [sic] Hewitson, by monotypy.
Chliaria Moore, 1884. Type-species: Hypolycaena othona Hewitson, [1865].
Zeltus de Nicéville, 1890. Type-species: Papilio etolus, Fabricius, 1787.

The last 2 synonymies after Fiedler, (1992).
References

Abang, F., Treadaway, C.G., Schröder, H.G. & Page, M.G.P. 2006. A further contribution to the Lepidoptera fauna of Balambangan Island (Malaysia, Sabah) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Pieridae). Futao 51: 1–7. Reference page.
Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
Butler, A. G., [1888]. On two small collections of African Lepidoptera received from H. H. Johnston. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887: 567-574. Reference page.
Cassidy, A.C.& Rawlins, A. 2011. On Hypolycaena from Maluku, Indonesia, including the first description of male Hypolycaena asahi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). ZooKeys, 115: 53–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.115.1406Reference page.
Felder, C. 1860. Lepidopterorum Amboinensium species novae diagnosibus. S-B. Akad. Wiss. Wien 40(11): 447–468. BHL Reference page.
Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1862. Lepidoptera nova a Dre. Carolo Semper in insulis Philippinis collecta, Series secunda. Wiener entomologische Monatschrift 6(9): 282–294. BHL Reference page.
Fiedler, K. 1992. Notes on the biology of Hypolycaena othona (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in West Malaysia. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 13(2): 65–92. Reference page.
Hayashi, H. 1981. New Lycaenid butterflies from the Philippines. Tyô to Ga 32(1,2): 63–82. DOI: 10.18984/lepid.32.1-2_63 Reference page.
Hayashi, H., Schröder, H.G. & Treadaway, C. G., 1984. New lycaenid butterflies from the Philippines. Senck. biol. 65(1/2): 29–41. Reference page.
Hayashi, H., 1984a. Zwei neue Lycaeniden-Arten von den Philippinen (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Ent. Zeitschr. 21:311-314. Reference page.
Kunte, K., 2015. A new species of Hypolycaena (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India. The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 48: 21–27. full article (pdf). Reference page.
van Mastrigt, H.J.G. 2013. A new species of Hypolycaena (C. & R. Felder, 1862) from Papua, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Suara Serangga Papua 8(2)]. Reference page.
Moore, F. 1884. Descriptions of some new Asiatic diurnal lepidoptera; chiefly from Specimens contained in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Journal Asiatic Society Bengal 53(2): 16–52. BHL. Reference page.
de Nicéville, L., 1890. The butterflies of India, Burmah & Ceylon. 3. Calcutta, xi + 503 pp. Text, Pls. Reference page.
Okubo, K., 2007. A new species and a new subpecies of lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera) from the Moluccas, Indonesia. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan. 58 (3): 364-366. Reference page.
Tennent, W.J., 2016. Notes on Hypolycaena phorbas (Fabricius, 1793), H. periphorbas Butler, 1882 and H. danis (Felder & Felder), 1865 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, with description of six new taxa from the Bismarck Archipelago and Milne Bay. Butterflies 72: 4-23, 89 figs. Reference page.
Treadaway, C.G. & Schröder, H.G. 2012. Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 32 (Suppl. 20): 64pp. Reference page.

Vernacular names
中文: 旖灰蝶屬

Hypolycaena is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. Hypolycaena species are found in the Australasian, Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms.
Species

Hypolycaena alcestis (Grose-Smith, 1889)
Hypolycaena amabilis (de Nicéville, [1895])
Hypolycaena amanica Stempffer, 1951
Hypolycaena anara Larsen, 1986
Hypolycaena antifaunus (Westwood, 1851)
Hypolycaena asahi Okubo, 2007
Hypolycaena auricostalis (Butler, 1897)
Hypolycaena buxtoni Hewitson, 1874
Hypolycaena clenchi Larsen, 1997
Hypolycaena coerulea Aurivillius, 1895
Hypolycaena condamini Stempffer, 1956
Hypolycaena danis (C. & R. Felder, [1865])
Hypolycaena dubia Aurivillius, 1895
Hypolycaena erasmus Grose-Smith, 1900
Hypolycaena erylus (Godart, [1824])
Hypolycaena hatita Hewitson, 1865
Hypolycaena irawana (H. Hayashi, Schröder & Treadaway, 1984)
Hypolycaena ithna Hewitson, 1869

Hypolycaena from William Chapman Hewitson's Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera

Hypolycaena jacksoni Bethune-Baker, 1906
Hypolycaena kadiskos Druce, 1890
Hypolycaena kakumi Larsen, 1997
Hypolycaena lebona (Hewitson, 1865)
Hypolycaena liara Druce, 1890
Hypolycaena lochmophila Tite, 1967
Hypolycaena merguia (Doherty, 1889)
Hypolycaena naara Hewitson, 1873
Hypolycaena narada Kunte, 2015
Hypolycaena nigra Bethune-Baker, 1914
Hypolycaena nilgirica Moore, [1884]
Hypolycaena obscura Stempffer, 1947
Hypolycaena ogadenensis Stempffer, 1946
Hypolycaena pachalica Butler, 1888
Hypolycaena phemis Druce, 1895
Hypolycaena philippus (Fabricius, 1793)
Hypolycaena phorbas (Fabricius, 1793)
Hypolycaena schroederi H. Hayashi, 1984
Hypolycaena schubotzi Aurivillius, 1923
Hypolycaena scintillans Stempffer, 1957
Hypolycaena shirozui (H. Hayashi, 1981)
Hypolycaena similis Dufrane, 1945
Hypolycaena sipylus Felder, 1860
Hypolycaena tearei Henning, 1981
Hypolycaena thecloides (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
Hypolycaena toshikoae H. Hayashi, 1984
Hypolycaena vanavasa (Fruhstorfer, 1909)
Hypolycaena xenia (Grose-Smith, 1895)