''Hypochlorosis'' 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 on
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 ...
and in the
Moluccas
The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in the east of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located ...
in 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 ...
.
Species
*''
Hypochlorosis ancharia''
(Hewitson, 1869)
*''
Hypochlorosis antipha''
(Hewitson, 1869)
*''
Hypochlorosis lorquinii''
(C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865)
References
*, 1894. Descriptions of three new Lycaenidae from New Guinea. ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' (6)13
252-255
* 1973: The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology'', 28
371-505
*, 1863–1878. ''Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae''. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp
TextPlates
*, 1998. ''The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea'' Academic Press,
*, 1892. In & , ''Exot. Schmett.'' 2. Die Familien und Gattungen der Tagfalter (6), pp. 225–284, pls 43–50. Fürth.
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Theclinae
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Julius Röber
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