Porthecla

Porthecla is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Porthecla
Porthecla minyia and other Lycaenidae in William Chapman Hewitson's Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Eumaeini
Genus:	Porthecla Robbins, 2004

Species

• Porthecla annette Faynel & R.K. Robbins, 2011
• Porthecla barba (Druce, 1907)
• Porthecla dinus (Hewitson, 1867)
• Porthecla forasteira Faynel & A. Moser, 2011
• Porthecla gemma (Druce, 1907)
• Porthecla johanna Faynel & R.K. Robbins, 2011
• Porthecla minyia (Hewitson, 1867)
• Porthecla peruensis Faynel & A. Moser, 2011
• Porthecla porthura (Druce, 1907)
• Porthecla prietoi Faynel & Busby, 2011
• Porthecla ravus (Druce, 1907)
• Porthecla willmotti Busby, Faynel & A. Moser, 2011

Former species

• Oenomaus melleus (Druce, 1907)

References

• Faynel, C.; R.C. Busby; A. Moser & R.K. Robbins, 2011: Species level taxonomy of the Neotropical hairstreak genus Porthecla (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.), 47(1-2): 241-259.