''Eumedonia'' is a Palearctic 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 ...

first described by Walter Forster in 1938.

Species

Listed alphabetically: *'' Eumedonia annulata'' (Elwes, 1906) Tibet *'' Eumedonia astorica'' (Evans, 1925) Northwest Himalayas *'' Eumedonia eumedon'' (Esper, 1780) – geranium argus *'' Eumedonia kogistana'' (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888) Darvaz, Pamirs *'' Eumedonia lamasem'' (Oberthür, 1910) Tibet *'' Eumedonia persephatta'' (Alphéraky, 1881) ) Hindu Kush - Tian-Shan, Pamirs-Alai *'' Eumedonia privata'' (Staudinger, 1895) West Himalayas

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* * Polyommatini Lycaenidae genera {{Lycaenidae-stub