Hypolycaena

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

Hypolycaena
Hypolycaena sipylus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Theclinae
Tribe:	Hypolycaenini
Genus:	Hypolycaena C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862
Synonyms
Tatura Butler, 1888

Hypolycaena from William Chapman Hewitson's Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera

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 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)

External links

• Hypolycaena at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• 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.115.1406

• Images Royal Museum for Central Africa