''Artipe'' is a genus of
butterflies 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 butterf ...
. The species of this genus are found in the
Indomalayan realm, 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-Sib ...
(Himalayas - China), and the
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 th ...
(New Guinea).
Genus ''Artipe'' was erected by
Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1870.
Species
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Artipe anna''
(Druce, 1896)
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Artipe eryx
''Artipe eryx'', the green flash, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as ...
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(Linnaeus, 1771) - green flash
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Artipe grandis''
(Rothschild & Jordan, 1905) New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
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Artipe dohertyi''
(Oberthür, 1894) New Guinea
External links
"''Artipe'' Boisduval, 1870"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
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Deudorigini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval
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