Leptotes (butterfly)

Leptotes is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as zebra blues in reference to their zebra-striped undersides.

Leptotes
Lang's short-tailed blue (Leptotes pirithous)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Leptotes
Scudder, 1876
Type species
Lycaena theonus
Lucas, 1857
Diversity
29 species
Synonyms
  • Cyclyrius Butler, [1897]
  • Langia Tutt, 1906 (non Moore, 1872: preoccupied)
  • Raywardia Tutt, 1908
  • Syntarucoides Kaye, 1904
  • Syntarucus Butler, 1901

The genus Cyclyrius was recently synonymized with Leptotes and its two species were thus moved to this genus.[1]

Species

The genus can be divided in several distinct geographic groups which often correspond to clades:[1]

Afrotropical and Palaearctic species:

Indomalayan species:

Australasian species:

  • Leptotes lybas (Godart, [1824])

Neotropical species:

  • Leptotes andicola (Godman & Salvin, 1891)
  • Leptotes bathyllos Tessmann, 1928
  • Leptotes callanga (Dyar, 1913)
  • Leptotes cassius (Cramer, [1775]) – Cassius blue, tropical striped blue
  • Leptotes delalande Bálint & Johnson, 1995
  • Leptotes lamasi Bálint & Johnson, 1995
  • Leptotes marina (Reakirt, 1868) – marine blue, striped blue
  • Leptotes parrhasioides (Wallengren, 1860) – Galapagos blue
  • Leptotes perkinsae Kaye, 1931
  • Leptotes trigemmatus (Butler, 1881)
Leptotes pirithous

Footnotes

  1. Fric et al., 2019.

References

  • Brower, Andrew V.Z. (2008): Tree of Life Web ProjectLeptotes Scudder 1876. The Zebra Blues. Version of 2008-MAY-19. Retrieved 2009-NOV-29.
  • Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms Leptotes. Version of 2009-MAY-24. Retrieved 2009-NOV-29.
  • Fric, Z.F., Maresova, J., Kadlec, T., Tropek, R., Pyrcz, T.W. & Wiemers, M., 2019. World travellers: phylogeny and biogeography of the butterfly genus Leptotes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Systematic Entomology 44(3): 652–665. doi:10.1111/syen.12349


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