Hypolycaena shirozui

Hypolycaena shirozui
	Male
	Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Hypolycaena
Species:	H. shirozui
Binomial name
	Hypolycaena shirozui; (H. Hayashi, 1981)

Hypolycaena shirozui is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It was described as Chliaria shirozui and moved to Hypolycaena by H. Hayashi, 1984. It is found on Mindanao, Leyte & Samar Is.in the Philippines.^[2]

References

HAYASHI Hisakazu, 1981: New Lycaenid Butterflies from the Philippines [1]
HAYASHI Hisakazu, 1984: New Synonyms, New Status, New Combinations, New Species and New Subspecies of Butterflies from the Philippines and Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Satyridae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae), IWASE, 2: 9-34.
TREADAWAY, Colin G. & SCHRÖDER, Heinz G., 2012: Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, Suppl. 20: 1-64.

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[1] Hypolycaena at funet

[2] On Hypolycaena from Maluku, Indonesia, including the first description of male Hypolycaena asahi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)

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