''Neozephyrus'' 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 ...
. Species in this genus are mainly distributed in
East Asia
East Asia is the eastern region of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The modern states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. China, North Korea, South Korea and ...
. The larval food plant is
alder
Alders are trees comprising the genus ''Alnus'' in the birch family Betulaceae. The genus comprises about 35 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the north temperate zone with a few sp ...
or - for Neozephyrus quercus -
oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''L ...
.
List of species
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Neozephyrus coruscans''
(Leech, 1894) western and central
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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Neozephyrus dubernardi''
(Riley, 1939) Yunnan
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Neozephyrus helenae''
Howarth, 1957 China
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Neozephyrus japonicus''
(Murray, 1875) Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrative ...
,
Ussuri
The Ussuri or Wusuli (russian: Уссури; ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and forming part of the Si ...
, northeast China,
Korea
Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...
,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
,
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 ...
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Neozephyrus quercus
The purple hairstreak (''Favonius quercus'') is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae distributed throughout much of Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, Caucasia, and Transcaucasia.
The larva feeds on ''Quercus robur'', ''Quercus petraea'', ''Querc ...
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(Linnaeus, 1758) - purple hairstreak
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Neozephyrus taiwanus''
(Wileman, 1908) Taiwan
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Neozephyrus uedai''
Koiwaya, 2003 Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
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Neozephyrus asahii ''
Fujioka, 2003 China (
Kouy Tcheou)
See also
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Chrysozephyrus''
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Favonius''
References
Biolib* , 2000. On the genus ''Favonius (s. str.)'' in the continental Ashia. ''Gekkan-Mushi'', (348): 18–22.
* , 2002: Descriptions of seven new species and a new subspecies of Theclini (Lycaenidae) from China and Indo-China. ''Gekkan-Mushi'' 373: 5-14.
* , 1953: On some new Lycaenids from Japan (II). ''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan'' 4 (2/3): 10–12. Abstract and full article
* and , 1942. Beitrag zur Systematik der Theclinae im Kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der sogenannten Gattung ''Zephyrus'' (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.)'' 15: 33–46, figs.
External links
"''Neozephyrus'' Sibatani & Ito, 1942"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Neozephyrus,
Lycaenidae genera
{{Theclinae-stub