Leptotes is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as zebra blues in reference to their zebra-striped undersides.
| 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
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| Diversity | |
| 29 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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The genus Cyclyrius was recently synonymized with Leptotes and its two species were thus moved to this genus.[1]
Species
editThe genus can be divided into several distinct geographic groups which often correspond to clades:[1]
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, [1824])
Neotropical species:
- Leptotes andicola (Godman & Salvin, 1891)
- Leptotes bathyllos Tessmann, 1928
- Leptotes callanga (Dyar, 1913)
- Leptotes cassius (Cramer, [1775]) – 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
edit- ^ a b 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
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Wikispecies has information related to Leptotes species and subspecies.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leptotes (Lycaenidae).
- 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