Favonius (butterfly)

Favonius is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Favonius
Favonius saphirinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Genus:
Favonius

Sibatani & Ito, 1942[1]
Synonyms
  • Quercusia Verity, 1943

Species list
  • Subgenus Favonius
    • Favonius cognatus (Staudinger, 1892) north-eastern China and Korea
      • Favonius cognatus cognatus
      • Favonius cognatus ackeryi (Fujioka, 1994)
      • Favonius cognatus latifasciatus (Shirôzu & Hayashi, 1959) Japan
    • Favonius jezoensis (Matsumura, 1915) Sakhalin, Kuriles, Japan (Hokkaido)
      • Favonius jezoensis jezoensis
      • Favonius jezoensis azumajamensis (Kanda, 1994)
      • Favonius jezoensis daisenensis (Tanaka, 1941)
      • Favonius jezoensis magnificans Murayama, 1953
    • Favonius korshunovi (Dubatolov & Sergeev, 1982) northeastern China, Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Korea
      • Favonius korshunovi korshunovi
      • Favonius korshunovi macrocercus (Wakabayashi & Fukuda, 1985)
      • Favonius korshunovi shinichiroi Fujioka, 2003
    • Favonius leechi (Riley, 1939) Szechwan
    • Favonius orientalis (Murray, 1875) Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Kunashir, north-eastern China, Korea, Japan
      • Favonius orientalis orientalis
      • Favonius orientalis shirozui Murayama, 1956
      • Favonius orientalis schischkini Kurentzov, 1970
    • Favonius taxila (Bremer, 1861) north-eastern and central China, Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Korea, Japan
    • Favonius ultramarinus (Fixsen, 1887) north-eastern China, Korea and Japan
      • Favonius ultramarinus ultramarinus Korea
      • Favonius ultramarinus borealis (Murayama, 1953) Japan
      • Favonius ultramarinus hayashii (Shirôzu, 1953) Japan
      • Favonius ultramarinus okumotoi (Koiwaya, 1996)
      • Favonius ultramarinus suffusa (Leech, 1894)
    • Favonius unoi Fujioka, 2003
    • Favonius watanabei Koiwaya, 2002 Myanmar
    • Favonius yuasai Shirôzu, 1948 Japan
  • Subgenus Tasogare Sugiura, 1993
  • Incertae sedis
    • Favonius latimarginata Murayama, 1963 Japan
    • Favonius leechina Lamas, 2008

Former species

References
  1. "Favonius Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Fujioka, T., 1994: Zephyrus (Thechlini butterflies) in the world (5). Genus Favonius. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 7: 3-17.
  • Fujioka, T., 2003: Descriptions of new species and new subspecies belonging to Tribe Theclini from Myanmar, Vietnam and west China. Gekkan-Mushi 384: 2-10.
  • Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18-22.
  • Hasegawa, T. 2009: Favonius koreanus, the twelfth species of the genus. Gekkan-Mushi, (461): 9-14. ISSN 0388-418X [in Japanese] [not seen]
  • Sibatani, A. and S. Ito, 1942. Beitrag zur systenatik der Theclinae im kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer berucksichtigung der sogenannten gattung Zephyrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.) 15: 33-46, figs.
  • images representing Favonius at Consortium for the Barcode of Life


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