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Monotypic butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Palaeophilotes is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its single species, Palaeophilotes triphysina, (Staudinger, 1892) is endemic to western China.
Palaeophilotes | |
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Staudingers illustration of Lycaena triphysina in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (figure 2) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
Tribe: | Polyommatini |
Genus: | Palaeophilotes Forster, 1938 [1] |
Species: | P. triphysina |
Binomial name | |
Palaeophilotes triphysina (Staudinger, [1892]) | |
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