Palaeophilotes

Palaeophilotes
Staudingers illustration of Lycaena triphysina in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (figure 2)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus:
Forster, 1938 [1]
Species:
P. triphysina
Binomial name
Palaeophilotes triphysina
(Staudinger, [1892])

Palaeophilotes is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its single species, Palaeophilotes triphysina, (Staudinger, 1892) is endemic to western China.

Lycaena triphysina in Seitz (row d)

References

Wikispecies has information related to Palaeophilotes.
  1. ^ Forster, W., 1938. Das system der palàarktischen Polyommatini (Lep. Lycaenidae) Mitteilungen der Münchner entomologischen Gesellschaft 28: 97–118.


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