Lycaenidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamiliae (7): Aphnaeinae – Curetinae – Lipteninae – Lycaeninae – Miletinae – Polyommatinae – Poritiinae – Theclinae

Overview of genera (423)

Actizera – Acupicta – Acytolepis – Aethiopana – Agriades – Ahlbergia – Ahmetia – Alaena – Allosmaitia – Allotinus – Aloeides – Amblopala – Amblypodia – Ancema – Anthene – Antigius – Aphnaeus – Apporasa – Aquisextana – Araotes – Araragi – Arawacus – Arcas – Archaeogerydus – Argyraspodes – Argyrocheila – Argyrocupha – Arhopala – Aricia – Arletta – Arrhenothrix – Artipe – Artopoetes – Aslauga – Athamanthia – Athysanota – Atlides – Aurea – Austrozephyrus – Axiocerses – Azanus – Baliochila – Baspa – Batelusia – Bidaspa – Biduanda – Bindahara – Boldenaria – Bothrinia – Bowkeria – Brephidium – Britomartis – Bullis – Cacyreus – Caerulea – Caleta – Callicista – Callictita – Callophrys – Calycopis – Calystryma – Candalides – Castalius – Catapaecilma – Catochrysops – Catopyrops – Celastrina – Cesa – Chaetoprocta – Chalybs – Charana – Cheritra – Cheritrella – Chilades – Chliaria – Chloroselas – Chlorostrymon – Chrysoritis – Chrysozephyrus – Cigaritis – Citrinophila – Cnodontes – Contrafacia – Cooksonia – Cordelia – Coreana – Creon – Crudaria – Cupidesthes – Cupido – Cupidopsis – Curetis – Cyaniriodes – Cyaniris – Cyanophrys – Cyclargus – Cyprotides – Dacalana – Danis – Dapidodigma – Darasana – Deloneura – Deramas – Deudorix – Diopetes – Discolampa – Drina – Drupadia – Durbania – Durbaniella – Durbaniopsis – Echinargus – Eicochrysops – Electrostrymon – Elkalyce – Eooxylides – Epidemia – Epimastidia – Epitola – Epitolina – Eresina – Eresinopsides – Erikssonia – Erina – Erora – Erysichton – Esakiozephyrus – Etesiolaus – Euaspa – Euchrysops – Euliphyra – Euliphyrodes – Eumaeus – Eumedonia – Euphilotes – Eupsychellus – Euthecta – Evenus – Falcuna – Famegana – Favonius – Feniseca – Flos – Freyeria – Glaucopsyche – Gonerilia – Habrodais – Harpendyreus – Heliophorus – Helleia – Hemiargus – Hemiolaus – Heodes – Hermelycaena – Hewitsonia – Horaga – Howarthia – Hyllolycaena – Hypaurotis – Hypochlorosis – Hypochrysops – Hypojamides – Hypokopelates – Hypolycaena – Hypomyrina – Hypophytala – Hypostrymon – Hypothecla – Hyrcanana – Hysudra – Iaspis – Icaricia – Incisalia – Iolana – Iolaus – Ionolyce – Iophanus – Ipidecla – Iraota – Iratsume – Iridana – Itylos – Jacoona – Jaera – Jalmenus – Jamides – Japonica – Keraunogramma – Kopelates – Kretania – Lachnocnema – Laeosopis – Lampides – Lamprospilus – Larinopoda – Lepidochrysops – Leptomyrina – Leptotes – Lestranicus – Leucantigius – Liphyra – Liptena – Liptenara – Logania – Loweia – Loxura – Lucia – Luthrodes – Lycaena – Lycaenesthes – Lycaenopsis – Lysandra – Macusia – Madeleinea – Magnastigma – Mahathala – Maneca – Manto – Mantoides – Megalopalpus – Megisba – Melanolycaena – Micandra – Michaelus – Micropentila – Microscena – Miletus – Mimacraea – Mimeresia – Ministrymon – Mithras – Mitoura – Monodontides – Mota – Myrina – Nabokovia – Nacaduba – Nadisepa – Narathura – Neaveia – Neocheritra – Neoepitola – Neolucia – Neolycaena – Neomyrina – Neopithecops – Neozephyrus – Nesiostrymon – Nesolycaena – Neurellipes – Neurypexina – Nilasera – Niphanda – Noreena – Notarthrinus – Oboronia – Ocaria – Oenomaus – Ogyris – Olynthus – Oraidium – Oreolyce – Ornipholidotos – Orthomiella – Oxylides – Paiwarria – Palaeochrysophanus – Palaeophilotes – Pamela – Panchala – Panthiades – Parachrysops – Paraduba – Paragerydus – Paralucia – Paralycaeides – Parasiomera – Paraslauga – Parelodina – Parrhasius – Penaincisalia – Pentila – Pepliphorus – Petrelaea – Phaedrotes – Phaeostrymon – Phasis – Phengaris – Philiolaus – Philiris – Philotes – Philotiella – Phlyaria – Phytala – Pilodeudorix – Pistoria – Pithecops – Plebejus – Plebulina – Podanotum – Poecilmitis – Polyommatus – Poriskina – Poritia – Powellana – Praephilotes – Pratapa – Prosotas – Protantigius – Pseudaletis – Pseudalmenus – Pseuderesia – Pseudiolaus – Pseudochliaria – Pseudochrysops – Pseudodipsas – Pseudogyris – Pseudolucia – Pseudolycaena – Pseudonacaduba – Pseudoneaveia – Pseudophilotes – Pseudozizeeria – Psychonotis – Ptelina – Ptox – Purlisa – Quercusia – Rachana – Rapala – Rathinda – Ravenna – Rekoa – Remelana – Rhinelephas – Ritra – Rysops – Sancterila – Sandia – Satadra – Satyrium – Scolitantides – Semanga – Sheffieldia – Shijimia – Shijimiaeoides – Shirozua – Siderus – Sidima – Simiskina – Sinia – Sinthusa – Sithon – Sospita – Spalgis – Stalachtis – Stempfferia – Strymon – Stugeta – Suasa – Sukidion – Surendra – Symbiopsis – Syrmoptera – Tajuria – Talicada – Taraka – Tarucus – Telipna – Teratoneura – Teratozephyrus – Teriomima – Tetrarhanis – Thaduka – Thamala – Tharsalea – Thaumaina – Thecla – Theclinesthes – Theclopsis – Theorema – Thereus – Theritas – Thermoniphas – Thersamonia – Thersamonolycaena – Thestius – Thestor – Thrix – Ticherra – Titea – Tmolus – Tomares – Tongeia – Toxochitona – Trichonis – Triclema – Trimenia – Tumerepedes – Turanana – Tylopaedia – Udara – Una – Upolampes – Uranobothria – Uranothauma – Ussuriana – Vacciniina – Vadebra – Vaga – Virachola – Wagimo – Xamia – Yasoda – Zarona – Zeltus – Zeritis – Zesius – Zetona – Zinaspa – Zintha – Zizeeria – Zizina – Zizula

[source: Catalogue of Life: 2012 Annual Checklist (must be considered tentative)]

Name

Lycaenidae Leach, 1815.

References

Primary references

Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 28(6): 371-505; 36 Pls.; 162 Text-figs. Reference page.
Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology [pp. 57–172]. In: Brewster, D. (Ed). Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Volume IX [part I]. W. Blackwood, J. Waugh, etc., Edinburgh, 764 pp. BHL Reference page.
Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. (Editors), 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, U.K.: i–xi, 1–803. Open Library. Reference page.

Additional references

Bálint, Z. & Johnson, K. 1997. Reformation of the Polyommatus section with a taxonomic and biogeographic overview (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatini). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 40: 1–68. PDF. Reference page.
Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
Clench, H. K., 1971. Two new hairstreaks from Mexico (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bull. Allyn Museum 3: 1–6. Full article: [1] Reference page.
Espeland, M., Breinholt, J.W., Willmott, K.R., Warren, A.D., Vila, R., Toussaint, E.F.A., Maunsell, S.C., Aduse-Poku, K., Talavera, G., Eastwood, R.G., Jarzyna, M.A., Guralnick, R., Lohman, D.J., Pierce, N.E. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies. Current Biology 28(5): 770–778. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.061 Reference page.
Heikkilä, M., Kaila, L., Mutanen, M., Peña, C. & Wahlberg, N. 2011. Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279(1731): 1093–1099. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1430 . Reference page.
Hemming, A.F. 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1–509. Reference page.
Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page.
Kerr, J.F.R. 1967. New records of Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) in Australia and a description of a new subspecies. Australian Journal of Entomology 6(1): 49–51. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1967.tb02138.x. Full article: [2].
Korb, S.K. 2018. On the blue butterfly taxa established by L.G. Courvoisier with the type locality “Narün” (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Zootaxa 4429(3): 589–594. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.11 Reference page.
Macqueen, J. 1965. Notes on Australian Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera). Australian Journal of Entomology 4(1): 56–57. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1965.tb00648.x. Full article: [3].
Matsumura, S., 1926. Some new and unrecorded Lycaenids-Species from Japan, Girca and Formosa. Insecta Matsumurana 1(1): 23-31, pl 2. web. Reference page.
Munguira, M.L., Martin, J., García-Barros, E., Shahbazian, G. & Cancela, J.P. 2015: Morphology and morphometry of Lycaenid eggs (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Zootaxa 3937(2): 201–247. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.1. Reference page.
Murayama, S. & Okamura, H., 1973. Butterflies of Luzon island in the Philippines, with descriptions of new species and sub-species. Tyô to Ga 24(1): 10-25, 48 figs. Reference page.
Rawlins, A. & Cassidy, A.C., 2022. An illustrated and annotated checklist of Pseudodipsas, Flos, Iraota, Ogyris and Drupadia taxa occurring in North Maluku and Maluku, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with notes on Drupadia theda in the Sulawesi Region. Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, 43 (2): 104-112. Reference page.
Sáfián, S. & Collins, S.C. 2015. Establishment of a new genus for Eresiomera paradoxa (Schultze, 1917) and related taxa (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4018(1): 124–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4018.1.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Schröder, H.G. & Treadaway, C. G. 1989. Zur Kenntnis philippinischer Lycaenidae, 5 (Lepidoptera). Entomologische Zeitschrift 99(19): 273–288, 7 figs. Reference page.
Schröder, H.G. & Treadaway, C. G. 1990. Zur Kenntnis philippinischer Lycaenidae, 6. (Lepidoptera). Entomologische Zeitschrift 100(9): 168–171. ill. Reference page.
Schröder, H.G. & Treadaway, C. G. 1990. Zur Kenntnis philippinischer Lycaenidae, 7. (Lepidoptera). Entomologische Zeitschrift 100(21): 404–407, ill. Reference page.
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Torres-Núñez, R., Hall, J.P.W., Willmott, K.R. & Johnson, K. 1996. A new genus of Elfin butterflies from the northern high Andes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Tropical Lepidoptera 7(1): 81–86. Full article: [4].

Links

Markku Savela: Funet: Lycaenidae.

Lycaenidae – Taxon details on Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)
Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2008. Lycaenidae [Leach] 1815. Gossamer-winged butterflies. Version 25 April 2008 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Lycaenidae/12175/2008.04.25 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
Butterflies of America

BHL bibliography
Lycaenidae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Lycaenidae.
ION
Pitkin, B. and Jenkins, P., 2005. Butterflies & Moths of the World: Generic Names & their Type-species[5]

Vernacular names

беларуская: Блакітніцы
čeština: Modráskovití
dansk: Blåfugle
Deutsch: Bläulinge
English: Gossamer-winged butterflies
suomi: Sinisiivet
français: lycénidés
magyar: Boglárkalepkefélék, boglárkalepkék, hangyaboglárka lepkék, lángszinérfélék
日本語: シジミチョウ科
한국어: 부전나빗과
lietuvių: Melsviai
polski: Modraszkowate
русский: Голубянки
svenska: Juvelvingar
Tiếng Việt: Họ Bướm xanh
中文: 灰蝶科