Prosotas

Prosotas
Common lineblue (Prosotas nora) in Hyderabad, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Prosotas
Druce, 1891

Prosotas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in 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 (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

  1. ↑ Yu-Feng Hsu and Shen-Horn Yen, 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 (2006)

Further reading

  • French Wikipedia has more information about this genus at fr:Prosotas


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