Artipe

Artipe
Artipe eryx, figure D from Cramer and Stoll's De Uitlandsche Kapellen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Artipe
Boisduval, 1870

Artipe is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalaya ecozone, the Palearctic ecozone (Himalayas - China) and the Australasian ecozone (New Guinea).

Genus Artipe was erected by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1870.

Species

  • Artipe anna (Druce, 1896)
  • Artipe eryx (Linnaeus, 1771) - green flash
  • Artipe grandis (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905)
  • Artipe dohertyi (Oberthür, 1894)


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