Famegana
Appearance
Famegana | |
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Famegana alsulus alsulus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
Tribe: | Polyommatini |
Genus: | Famegana Eliot, 1973 |
Species: | F. alsulus
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Binomial name | |
Famegana alsulus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
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Famegana is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae erected by John Nevill Eliot in 1973. Its single species, Famegana alsulus, the black-spotted grass blue, was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1869. It is found in the Australasian realm.[1][2]
Subspecies
[edit]- F. a. alsulus Torres Strait Island, North Australia - New South Wales
- F. a. lulu (Mathew, 1889) Fiji
- F. a. kalawarus (Ribbe, 1926) Sulawesi
- F. a. eggletoni (Corbet, 1941) Hong Kong
References
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- ^ Eliot, J. N. (1973). "The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). (28) 6: 375–505, 162 figs., 6 pls.
- ^ Hirowatari, T. (1992). "A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae)". Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture. (B), 44 (Suppl.)