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(Redirected from Famegana alsulus) Monotypic butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Famegana
Famegana alsulus alsulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Famegana
Eliot, 1973
Species: F. alsulus
Binomial name
Famegana alsulus
(Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

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.

Subspecies

  • 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.)
Taxon identifiers
Famegana


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