Prosotas

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Prosotas
Species: (20)
P. aluta – P. atra – P. bhutea – P. cloe – P. datarica – P. dubiosa – P. ella – P. elsa – P. felderi – P. gracilis – P. lutea – P. maputi – P. nelides – P. nora – P. noreia – P. norina – P. papuana – P. patricae – P. pia – P. russelli – P. talesea

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

Name

Prosotas H. H. Druce, 1891.

Type species: Prosotas caliginosa Druce.

References

Druce, H.H. 1891. On the Lycaenidae of the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1891(3): 357–373, pls 31,32. BHL text, plates. Reference page.
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.
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.
Hsu, Y.-F. & Yen, S.-H. 2006. Immature biology of Prosotas reveals an ovipositing strategy unusual in Polyommatinae Lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), with a description of a new subspecies of P. dubiosa from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 45(3): 308–321. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Takanami, Y., 1990. Miscellaneous notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) from South-East Asia (I). Tyô to Ga 41(2): 67-78. PDF. Reference page.
Tennent, W.J., 2003. Two elusive new Prosotas Druce, 1891 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the New Hebrides archipelago (Solomon Islands and Vanuatu). Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 36: 39-44. Reference page.
Tennent, W.J. 2023. A new Prosotas (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the islands of Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 33(2): 86-89. Reference page.
Tite, G. E., 1963. A synonymic list of the genus Nacaduba and allied genera (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent) 13(4): 67-116, 91 figs, 2.pls.Reference page.
Toxopeus, L.J. 1929. De Riodinidae en Lycaenidae van het eiland Java (Lycaenidae Australasiae VI). Entomologisk tidskrift 72: 215-244. BHL Reference page.

Vernacular names

中文: 波灰蝶屬