''Anthene'' is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...

, commonly called the ciliate blues or hairtails. The genus was erected by

Edward Doubleday Edward Doubleday (9 October 1810 – 14 December 1849) was an English entomologist primarily interested in Lepidoptera. He is best known for ''The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of Their Habits and ...

in 1847.

Subgenera and species

Listed alphabetically within

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: *Subgenus ''Anthene'' Doubleday, 1847 (

Afrotropical realm The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

) **'' Anthene abruptus'' (Gaede, 1915) **'' Anthene afra'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene alberta'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene amarah'' (Guérin-Méneville, 1847) – black-striped hairtail **'' Anthene arnoldi'' (N. Jones, 1917) **'' Anthene arora'' Larsen, 1983 **'' Anthene atewa'' Larsen & Collins, 1998 **'' Anthene aurobrunnea'' (Ungemach, 1932) **'' Anthene bakeri'' (H. H. Druce, 1910) **'' Anthene barnesi'' Stevenson, 1940 **'' Anthene bipuncta'' (Joicey & Talbot, 1921) **'' Anthene bjoernstadi'' Collins & Larsen, 1991 **'' Anthene buchholzi'' (Plötz, 1880) **'' Anthene butleri'' (Oberthür, 1880) – pale hairtail **'' Anthene chirinda'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene collinsi'' D'Abrera, 1980 **'' Anthene contrastata'' Ungemach, 1932 – mashuna hairtail **'' Anthene crawshayi'' (Butler, 1899) **'' Anthene definita'' (Butler, 1899) – common hairtail **'' Anthene discimacula'' (Joicey & Talbot, 1921) **'' Anthene emkopoti'' Larsen & Collins, 1998 **'' Anthene erythropoecilus'' (Holland, 1893) **'' Anthene flavomaculatus'' (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893) **'' Anthene helpsi'' Larsen, 1994 **'' Anthene hobleyi'' (Neave, 1904) **'' Anthene hodsoni'' (Talbot, 1935) **'' Anthene indefinita'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene irumu'' (Stempffer, 1948) **'' Anthene ituria'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **''

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'' Gabriel, 1949 **'' Anthene juanitae'' Henning & Henning, 1993 – Juanita's hairtail **'' Anthene juba'' (Fabricius, 1787) **'' Anthene kampala'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene katera'' Talbot, 1937 **'' Anthene kersteni'' (Gerstaecker, 1871) – Kersten's hairtail **'' Anthene kikuyu'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene lachares'' (Hewitson,

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**'' Anthene larydas'' (Cramer,

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**'' Anthene lasti'' (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894) **'' Anthene lemnos'' (Hewitson, 1878) – large hairtail **'' Anthene leptala'' (Courvoisier, 1914) **'' Anthene leptines'' (Hewitson, 1874) **'' Anthene levis'' (Hewitson, 1878) **'' Anthene ligures'' (Hewitson, 1874) **'' Anthene lindae'' Henning & Henning, 1994 – Linda's hairtail **'' Anthene liodes'' (Hewitson, 1874) – liodes hairtail **'' Anthene locuples'' (Grose-Smith, 1898) **'' Anthene lunulata'' (Trimen, 1894) **'' Anthene lychnaptes'' (Holland, 1891) **'' Anthene lychnides'' (Hewitson, 1878) **'' Anthene lysicles'' (Hewitson, 1874) **'' Anthene madibirensis'' (Wichgraf, 1921) **'' Anthene mahota'' (Grose-Smith, 1887) **'' Anthene makala'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene melambrotus'' (Holland, 1893) **'' Anthene millari'' (Trimen, 1893) – Millar's hairtail **'' Anthene minima'' (Trimen, 1893) – little hairtail **'' Anthene montana'' Kielland, 1990 **'' Anthene mpanda'' Kielland, 1990 **'' Anthene ngoko'' Stempffer, 1962 **'' Anthene nigropunctata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene onias'' (Hulstaert, 1924) **'' Anthene opalina'' Stempffer, 1946 **'' Anthene otacilia'' (Trimen, 1868) – Otacilia hairtail or Trimen's ciliate blue **'' Anthene pitmani'' Stempffer, 1936 **'' Anthene princeps'' (Butler, 1876) – cupreous hairtail **'' Anthene pyroptera'' (Aurivillius, 1895) **'' Anthene radiata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene ramnika'' D'Abrera, 1980 **'' Anthene rhodesiana'' Stempffer, 1962 **'' Anthene rothschildi'' (Aurivillius, 1922) **'' Anthene rubricinctus'' (Holland, 1891) **'' Anthene rubrimaculata'' (Strand, 1909) **'' Anthene rufomarginata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene ruwenzoricus'' (Grünberg, 1911) **'' Anthene saddacus'' (Talbot, 1935) **'' Anthene schoutedeni'' (Hulstaert, 1924) **'' Anthene scintillula'' (Holland, 1891) **'' Anthene sheppardi'' Stevenson, 1940 **'' Anthene starki'' Larsen, 2005 **'' Anthene suquala'' (Pagenstecher, 1902) **'' Anthene sylvanus'' (Drury, 1773) **'' Anthene talboti'' Stempffer, 1936 – Talbot's hairtail **'' Anthene ukerewensis'' (Strand, 1909) **'' Anthene uzungwae'' Kielland, 1990 **'' Anthene versatilis'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene wilsoni'' (Talbot, 1935) **'' Anthene xanthopoecilus'' (Holland, 1893) **'' Anthene zenkeri'' (Karsch, 1895) *Subgenus ''Anthene'' Doubleday, 1847; ''Australasia''-species group (

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

Australasian realm The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea and ...

, Himalayan area in the

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

): **'' Anthene emolus'' (Godart,

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– ciliate blue **'' Anthene licates'' (Hewitson, 1874) **'' Anthene lycaenina'' (R. Felder, 1868) – pointed ciliate blue **'' Anthene lycaenolus'' Tite, 1966 **'' Anthene lycaenoides'' (Felder, 1860) **'' Anthene paraffinis'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) **'' Anthene philo'' Hopffer, 1874 **'' Anthene seltuttus'' (Röber, 1886) **'' Anthene villosa'' (Snellen, 1878) *Subgenus ''Neurellipes'' Bethune-Baker, 1910

**'' Anthene aequatorialis'' Stempffer, 1962 **'' Anthene chryseostictus'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene fulvus'' Stempffer, 1962 **'' Anthene gemmifera'' (Neave, 1910) **'' Anthene likouala'' Stempffer, 1962 **'' Anthene lusones'' (Hewitson, 1874) **'' Anthene staudingeri'' (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894) *Subgenus ''Neurypexina'' Bethune-Baker, 1910

**'' Anthene kalinzu'' (Stempffer, 1950) **'' Anthene lamprocles'' (Hewitson, 1878) **'' Anthene lyzanius'' (Hewitson, 1874) **'' Anthene quadricaudata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1926) *Subgenus ''Triclema'' Karsch, 1893

**'' Anthene africana'' (Bethune-Baker, 1926) **'' Anthene coerulea'' (Aurivillius, 1895) **'' Anthene fasciatus'' (Aurivillius, 1895) **'' Anthene hades'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene inconspicua'' (H. H. Druce, 1910) **'' Anthene inferna'' (Bethune-Baker, 1926) **'' Anthene kamilila'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene kimboza'' (Kielland, 1990) **'' Anthene krokosua'' (Larsen, 2005) **'' Anthene lacides'' (Hewitson, 1874) **'' Anthene lamias'' (Hewitson, 1878) **'' Anthene lucretilis'' (Hewitson, 1874) **'' Anthene lutzi'' (Holland, 1920) **'' Anthene marshalli'' (Bethune-Baker, 1903) **'' Anthene nigeriae'' (Aurivillius, 1905) **'' Anthene obscura'' (H. H. Druce, 1910) **'' Anthene oculatus'' (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893) **'' Anthene phoenicis'' (Karsch, 1893) **'' Anthene rufoplagata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) **'' Anthene tisamenus'' (Holland, 1891) *Subgenus unknown **'' Anthene georgiadisi'' Larsen, 2009

References

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'' 14: 1-27. * (1966). A revision of the genus ''Anthene'' from the Oriental region. ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)'' 18: 253-275, 2 pls, 28 text figs. * (1932). Contribution a l'étude des lépidoptères d'Abyssinie. ''Mém. Soc. Sci. nat. phy. Maroc.'' 32: 1-122, 2 pls., 1 map. * (2008). ''Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea''. 7th Edn. (April 2007). Downloaded fro

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External links

* * *Takanami, Yusuke & Seki, Yasuo (2001)
"Genus ''Anthene''"
''A Synonymic List of Lycaenidae from the Philippines''. Archived June 30, 2001. With images. * {{Taxonbar , from=Q1380770 Anthene, Lycaenidae genera