Prosotas

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Prosotas

Prosotas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1891. The species of this genus are found on New Guinea in the Australasian realm and the Indomalayan realm. An overview is provided by Hsu and Yen.[1]

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Common lineblue (Prosotas nora) in Hyderabad, India
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Prosotas
H. H. Druce, 1891
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Species

Species in alphabetical order:

  • Prosotas aluta (H. 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)

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