Prosotas

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: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Prosotas
Species: (20)
P. aluta – P. atra – P. bhutea – P. datarica – P. dubiosa – P. ella – P. elsa – P. felderi – P. gracilis – P. lutea – P. maputi – P. nelides – P. nora – P. noreia – P. norina – P. papuana – P. patricae – P. pia – P. russelli – P. talesea
Name

Prosotas H. H. Druce, 1891.

Type species: Prosotas caliginosa Druce.
References

Druce, H.H. 1891. On the Lycaenidae of the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891(3): 357–373, pls 31,32. BHL text, plates. Reference page.
Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology 28(6): 371-505. Reference page.
Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page.
Hsu, Y.-F. & Yen, S.-H. 2006. Immature biology of Prosotas reveals an ovipositing strategy unusual in Polyommatinae Lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), with a description of a new subspecies of P. dubiosa from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 45(3): 308–321. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Takanami, Y., 1990. Miscellaneous notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) from South-East Asia (I). Tyô to Ga 41(2): 67-78. PDF. Reference page.
Tennent, W.J., 2003. Two elusive new Prosotas Druce, 1891 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the New Hebrides archipelago (Solomon Islands and Vanuatu). Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 36: 39-44. Reference page.
Tite, G. E., 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent) 13(4): 67-116, 91 figs, 2.pls.Reference page.
Toxopeus, L.J. 1929. De Riodinidae en Lycaenidae van het eiland Java (Lycaenidae Australasiae VI). Entomologisk tidskrift 72: 215-244. BHL Reference page.

Vernacular names
中文: 波灰蝶屬

Prosotas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1891. The species of this genus are found on New Guinea in the Australasian realm and the Indomalayan realm. An overview is provided by Hsu and Yen.[1]

Species in alphabetical order:

Prosotas aluta (H. Druce, 1873) – banded lineblue
Prosotas atra Tite, 1963
Prosotas bhutea (de Nicéville, [1884]) – Bhutya lineblue
Prosotas datarica (Snellen, 1892)
Prosotas dilata (Evans, 1932)
Prosotas dubiosa (Semper, [1879]) – small purple lineblue, tailess lineblue
Prosotas ella Toxopeus, 1930
Prosotas elsa (Grose-Smith, 1895)
Prosotas felderi (Murray, 1874) – Felder's line blue
Prosotas gracilis (Röber, 1886)
Prosotas lutea (Martin, 1895)
Prosotas maputi (Semper, 1889)
Prosotas nelides (de Nicéville, 1895)
Prosotas nora (Felder, 1860) – common lineblue
Prosotas noreia (Felder, 1868) – white-tipped lineblue
Prosotas norina Toxopeus, 1929
Prosotas papuana Tite, 1963
Prosotas pia Toxopeus, 1929 – margined lineblue
Prosotas talesea Tite, 1963

References

Hsu, Yu-Feng & Yen, Shen-Horn (2006). "Immature Biology of Prosotas Reveals an Ovipositing Strategy Unusual in Polyommatine Lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), with a Description of a New Subspecies of P. dubiosa from Taiwan". Zoological Studies. 45 (3): 308-321.

External links

Savela, Markku (November 29, 2018). "Prosotas Druce, 1891". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
"Taxonomy Browser: Prosotas". Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Retrieved December 16, 2019. With images.