Prosotas
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| Common lineblue (Prosotas nora) in Hyderabad, India | |
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| Genus: | Prosotas Druce, 1891
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Prosotas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in New Guinea in the Australasian realm and the Indomalayan realm. An overview is provided by Hsu and Yen [1]
Species in alphabetical order:
- Prosotas aluta (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
References
- ^ Yu-Feng Hsu and Shen-Horn Yen, 2006 Immature Biology of Prosotas Reveals an Ovipositing Strategy Unusual in Polyommatine Lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), with a Description of a New Subspecies of P. dubiosa from Taiwan Zoological Studies 45(3): 308-321 (2006)
External links
- "Prosotas Druce, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
- Images representing Prosotas at BOLD
Media related to Prosotas at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Prosotas at Wikispecies
Further reading
- French Wikipedia has more information about this genus at fr:Prosotas
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