| Leptotes | |
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| Lang's short-tailed blue (Leptotes pirithous) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Leptotes Scudder, 1876 |
| Type species | |
| Lycaena theonus Lucas, 1857 | |
| Diversity | |
| 29 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leptotes is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as zebra blues in reference to their zebra-striped undersides.
The genus Cyclyrius was recently synonymized with Leptotes and its two species were thus moved to this genus.
Species
The genus can be divided into several distinct geographic groups which often correspond to clades:
Afrotropical and Palaearctic species:
- Leptotes adamsoni Collins & Larsen, 1991 – Adamson's zebra blue
- Leptotes babaulti (Stempffer, 1935) – Babault's zebra blue
- Leptotes brevidentatus (Tite, 1958) – Tite's zebra blue
- Leptotes casca (Tite, 1958)
- Leptotes cassioides (Capronnier, 1889)
- Leptotes durrelli Fric, Pyrcz & Wiemers, 2019
- Leptotes jeanneli (Stempffer, 1935)
- Leptotes mandersi (Druce, 1907)
- Leptotes marginalis (Stempffer, 1944) – black-bordered zebra blue
- Leptotes mayottensis (Tite, 1958)
- Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767) – Lang's short-tailed blue, common zebra blue
- Leptotes pulcher (Murray, 1874) – beautiful zebra blue
- Leptotes pyrczi Libert, 2011
- Leptotes rabefaner (Mabille, 1877)
- Leptotes sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893)
- Leptotes socotranus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1899)
- Leptotes webbianus (Brullé, 1839) – Canary blue
Indomalayan species:
- Leptotes plinius (Fabricius, 1793) – zebra blue, plumbago blue
Australasian species:
- Leptotes lybas (Godart, )
Neotropical species:
- Leptotes andicola (Godman & Salvin, 1891)
- Leptotes bathyllos Tessmann, 1928
- Leptotes callanga (Dyar, 1913)
- Leptotes cassius (Cramer, ) – Cassius blue, tropical striped blue
- Leptotes delalande Bálint & Johnson, 1995
- Leptotes lamasi Bálint & Johnson, 1995
- Leptotes marina (Reakirt, 1868) – marine blue, striped blue
- Leptotes parrhasioides (Wallengren, 1860) – Galapagos blue
- Leptotes perkinsae Kaye, 1931
- Leptotes trigemmatus (Butler, 1881)
References
- ^ Fric, Z. F.; Maresova, J.; Kadlec, T.; Tropek, R.; Pyrcz, T. W.; Wiemers, M. (2019). "World travellers: phylogeny and biogeography of the butterfly genus Leptotes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (3): 652–665. Bibcode:2019SysEn..44..652F. doi:10.1111/syen.12349. S2CID 195412904.
- Brower, Andrew V.Z. (2008): Tree of Life Web Project – Leptotes Scudder 1876. The Zebra Blues. Version of 2008-MAY-19. Retrieved 2009-NOV-29.
- Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Leptotes. Version of 2009-MAY-24. Retrieved 2009-NOV-29.
External links
- Marine Blue, Leptotes marina at Butterflies and Moths of North America
- Cassius Blue, Leptotes cassius at Butterflies and Moths of North America
- Leptotes at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
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