''Horaga'' 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 ...

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, Lond ...

, 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 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 Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

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 The Malay Archipelago (Indonesian/Malay: , tgl, Kapuluang Malay) is the archipelago between mainland Indochina and Australia. It has also been called the " Malay world," "Nusantara", "East Indies", Indo-Australian Archipelago, Spices Archipe ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

Species

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Horaga araotina ''Horaga'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae which John Nevill Eliot, 1973,Eliot, J. N. 1973. '' The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement'' Bull. BMNH 28/6. places in the tribe Horagini ...

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Horaga onyx ''Horaga onyx'', the common onyx, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia. Range The butterfly is mostly seen in India ( Western Ghats, Maharashtra southwards, Himachal Pradesh to Arunachal Pradesh) and also in Nepal, Bhutan, ...

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Horaga syrinx ''Horaga syrinx'', the yellow onyx, is a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in Asia. Range ''H. syrinx'' is found in northern India, Malaya, Indonesia, Philippines, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and New GuineaVane-Wright R.I. & de ...

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Horaga albimacula ''Horaga albimacula'', the violet onyx, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm. Subspecies *''H. a. albimacula'' Andamans *''H. a. viola'' Moore, 1882 Sikkim, Assam, India, Ceylon, Burma *''H. a. anara'' Fru ...

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Horaga chalcedonyx ''Horaga'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae which John Nevill Eliot, 1973,Eliot, J. N. 1973. '' The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement'' Bull. BMNH 28/6. places in the tribe Horagini ...

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Horaga amethystus ''Horaga'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae which John Nevill Eliot, 1973,Eliot, J. N. 1973. '' The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement'' Bull. BMNH 28/6. places in the tribe Horagini ...

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Horaga selina ''Horaga selina'', the Selina's onyx, is a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in Sulawesi, Indonesia.Vane-Wright R.I. & de Jong R. 2003. ''The Butterflies of Sulawesi'' p129. Range ''H. selina'' is endemic to Sulawesi. It was ...

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Horaga moulmeina ''Horaga moulmeina'', the yellow onyx, is a subspecies of ''Horaga syrinx.'' It is a small lycaenid (hairstreak butterfly) found in Asia. See also *List of butterflies of India *List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae) This is a l ...

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Horaga viola ''Horaga viola'', the brown onyx, a small lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in Asia. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of '' Horaga albimacula'', Description See also *List of butterflies of India *List of butterflies of India ( ...

Cited references

Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Frederic Moore {{Lycaenidae-stub