''Philiris'' 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 ...
. The species of this genus are found 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 ...
(
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 ...
,
Bismarck Islands
The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about 50,000 square km.
History
The first inhabitants o ...
,
Molucca Islands
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 eas ...
and eastern Australia). ''Philiris'' was erected by
Julius Röber
Johannes Karl Max "Julius" Röber (1861–1942) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
Röber lived in Dresden. He described many new species and genera (taxa).
Works
*Parts of Staudinger, O., and Schatz, E. (Eds.) (1884–1 ...
in 1891.
It is a speciose genus; Tite decided on 56 species, Sands added 11 species and placed the taxa into 21 species groups (broadly accepted by Parsons Most species are on New Guinea.Tite considered ''Philiris'' and ''Candalides'' Hübner, 1819 to be
sisters
A sister is a woman or a girl who shares one or more parents with another individual; a female sibling. The male counterpart is a brother. Although the term typically refers to a familial relationship, it is sometimes used endearingly to refer to ...
. Eliot (1973)
[Eliot, J. N. 1973. More Revisional Notes on Oriental Butterflies. ''Entomologist'' 106: 1–15, 10 figs.] placed ''Philiris'' in
Luciini
The Luciini are a tribe of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Genera
Though containing few genera at present, some of these have numerous species. As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, the following list of genera is prelimina ...
Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914,
Species
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Philiris agatha''
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Philiris albicostalis''
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Philiris albihumerata''
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Philiris albiplaga''
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Philiris amethysta''
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Philiris angabunga''
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Philiris apicalis''
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Philiris aquamarina''
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Philiris argenteus''
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Philiris azula''
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Philiris baiteta''
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Philiris biplaga''
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Philiris bubalisatina''
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Philiris cadmica''
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Philiris caelestis''
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Philiris cyana''
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Philiris diana''
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Philiris dinawa''
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Philiris doreia''
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Philiris elegans''
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Philiris fulgens
''Philiris fulgens'', the purple moonbeam, is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia (northern Queensland).
The wingspan is about 25 mm. Males have metallic purplish-blue forewin ...
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Philiris gloriosa''
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Philiris harterti''
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Philiris helena''
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Philiris hemileuca''
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Philiris hindenburgensis''
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Philiris hypoxantha''
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Philiris ianthina''
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Philiris ignobilis''
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Philiris ilias''
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Philiris innotatus''
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Philiris intensa''
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Philiris kumusiensis''
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Philiris lavendula''
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Philiris lucescens''
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Philiris maculata''
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Philiris marginata''
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Philiris mayri''
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Philiris melanacra''
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Philiris misimensis''
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Philiris moira''
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Philiris moluccana''
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Philiris montigena''
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Philiris nitens''
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Philiris oreas''
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Philiris pagwi''
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Philiris parsonsi''
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Philiris petriei''
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Philiris phengotes''
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Philiris philotas''
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Philiris philotoides''
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Philiris praeclara''
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Philiris putih''
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Philiris radicala''
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Philiris refusa''
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Philiris remissa''
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Philiris satis''
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Philiris scintillata''
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Philiris siassi''
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Philiris sibatanii''
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Philiris subovata''
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Philiris tapini''
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Philiris tombara''
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Philiris unipunctata''
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Philiris vicina''
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Philiris violetta''
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Philiris zadne''
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Philiris ziska''
References
External links
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"''Philiris'' Röber, 1891"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Luciini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Julius Röber
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