''Calycopis'' 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 ...

. Massively split up by Kurt Johnson in 1991, most modern authors consider the changes proposed at that time to be unjustified. Most of the species of this genus are found in the

Neotropical realm The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

and others in the

Nearctic realm The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America t ...

Species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

include: * ''

Calycopis cecrops The red-banded hairstreak (''Calycopis cecrops'') is a butterfly native to the southeastern United States. It feeds on fallen leaves of sumac species and other trees. Its size ranges from . It lives near coastal areas. Its genome was sequenced i ...

'' Fabricius, 1793 – red-banded hairstreak * ''

Calycopis isobeon ''Calycopis isobeon'', the dusky-blue groundstreak, is a butterfly native to the Americas, ranging from Venezuela to central Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. A ...

'' Butler & H. Druce, 1872 * ''

Calycopis pisis ''Calycopis pisis'', the pisis groundstreak, is a butterfly found in several countries in Latin America. Taxonomic history and synonyms This species was described in 1887 by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in '' Biologia Centrali-Ameri ...

'' (Godman & Salvin, 1887) * ''Calycopis trebula'' (Hewitson, 1868); Trebula groundstreak Several proposed species are of doubtful validity.

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"''Calycopis'' Scudder, 1876"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Eumaeini Lycaenidae of South America Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder {{Eumaeini-stub