Favonius is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Favonius
Favonius saphirinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Theclini
Genus: Favonius
Sibatani & Ito, 1942[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942
  • Quercusia Verity, 1943

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Former species

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References

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  1. ^ "Favonius Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ "Favonius". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  • Fujioka, T., 1994: Zephyrus (Thechlini butterflies) in the world (5). Genus Favonius. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 7: 3-17.
  • Fujioka, T., 2003: Descriptions of new species and new subspecies belonging to Tribe Theclini from Myanmar, Vietnam and west China. Gekkan-Mushi 384: 2-10.
  • Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18-22.
  • Hasegawa, T. 2009: Favonius koreanus, the twelfth species of the genus. Gekkan-Mushi, (461): 9-14. ISSN 0388-418X [in Japanese] [not seen]
  • Sibatani, A. and S. Ito, 1942. Beitrag zur systenatik der Theclinae im kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer berucksichtigung der sogenannten gattung Zephyrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.) 15: 33-46, figs.
  • images representing Favonius at Consortium for the Barcode of Life