''Horaga'' 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 ...
which
John Nevill Eliot
Lt. Col. John Nevill Eliot (29 August 1912 – 11 April 2003)''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' was an English entomologist who specialised in Oriental Lepidoptera especially Lycaenidae.
He was born in Woolwich, Lo ...
, 1973,
[Eliot, J. N. 1973. '' The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement'' Bull. BMNH 28/6.] places in the tribe
Horagini
The Horagini are a small tribe of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. '' Ahmetia'' (formerly called ''Cowania''), sometimes placed here, rather seems to belong to the Cheritrini however, but these are probably the Horagini's closest living r ...
of the subfamily
Theclinae
The subfamily Theclinae is a group of butterflies, often referred to as hairstreaks, with some species instead known as elfins or by other names. The group is part of the family Lycaenidae, the "gossamer-winged butterflies". There are many tropi ...
. The wings are blue, purple or brown above, with broad black costal and distal margins and usually a white discal spot on the forewing. The female is dingier than the male. The underside is ochreous, or ochreous brown, with a dark postdiscal line on both wings outwardly edged with white, this edging forming a broad white band not continued much above vein 6, on the forewing, but narrower and outwardly diffuse on the hindwing. The hindwing bears filamentous tails at veins 1b, 1 and 3 and, beneath. The pattern of ''
H. araotina'' is aberrant.
[Eliot, J. N. (Editor) in Corbet A.S. and Pendlebury H.M. '' The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula'' 4th Edition 1991.]
Range
The genus occurs in Asia, where it is distributed from
Sri Lanka to
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
, and through the
Malay Archipelago to
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 ...
.
Species
* ''
Horaga araotina''
* ''
Horaga onyx''
* ''
Horaga syrinx''
* ''
Horaga albimacula''
* ''
Horaga chalcedonyx''
* ''
Horaga amethystus''
* ''
Horaga selina''
* ''
Horaga moulmeina''
* ''
Horaga viola''
Cited references
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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