Erysichton

Erysichton is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Australasian realm.

Erysichton
Erysichton palmyra figures 28 and 29
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Erysichton Fruhstorfer, 1916[1]

Etymology

The genus is named after the mythological figure of Erysichthon of Thessaly.

Species

• Erysichton lineatus (Murray, 1874)

Former species

Two species of Erysichton were transferred to the new genus Jameela, leaving only the species Erysichton lineatus. (Grund 2010)

• Erysichton albiplaga is now known as Jameela albiplaga (Tite, 1963)
• Erysichton palmyra is now known as Jameela palmyra (Felder, 1860)

References

1. Erysichton at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

• Eliot, J.N. 1973: The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology, 28: 371-505. BHL
• Fruhstorfer, H., 1916. Nacaduba Artengruppe Erysichton. Zool. Meded. 2: 137.
• Grund, R. & R. Eastwood 2010: New Australian butterfly genus Jameela gen. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae: Polyommatini) revealed by morphological, ecological and molecular data. Entomological Science 13 (1): 134-143. DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2010.00368.x. Abstract: ^{[dead link‍]}.
• 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.)
• Parsons, M., 1999. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-545555-0
• Tite, G.E. 1963: A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), entomology, 13(4): 67-116, plates 1,2.