Favonius (butterfly)

Favonius
	Favonius saphirinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Favonius; Sibatani & Ito, 1942[1]
Synonyms
	Quercusia Verity, 1943;

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

Species list

Subgenus Favonius
- Favonius cognatus (Staudinger, 1892) north-eastern China and Korea
  - Favonius cognatus cognatus
  - Favonius cognatus ackeryi (Fujioka, 1994)
  - Favonius cognatus latifasciatus (Shirôzu & Hayashi, 1959) Japan
- Favonius jezoensis (Matsumura, 1915) Sakhalin, Kuriles, Japan (Hokkaido)
  - Favonius jezoensis jezoensis
  - Favonius jezoensis azumajamensis (Kanda, 1994)
  - Favonius jezoensis daisenensis (Tanaka, 1941)
  - Favonius jezoensis magnificans Murayama, 1953
- Favonius korshunovi (Dubatolov & Sergeev, 1982) northeastern China, Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Korea
  - Favonius korshunovi korshunovi
  - Favonius korshunovi macrocercus (Wakabayashi & Fukuda, 1985)
  - Favonius korshunovi shinichiroi Fujioka, 2003
- Favonius leechi (Riley, 1939) Szechwan
- Favonius orientalis (Murray, 1875) Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Kunashir, north-eastern China, Korea, Japan
  - Favonius orientalis orientalis
  - Favonius orientalis shirozui Murayama, 1956
  - Favonius orientalis schischkini Kurentzov, 1970
- Favonius taxila (Bremer, 1861) north-eastern and central China, Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Korea, Japan
- Favonius ultramarinus (Fixsen, 1887) north-eastern China, Korea and Japan
  - Favonius ultramarinus ultramarinus Korea
  - Favonius ultramarinus borealis (Murayama, 1953) Japan
  - Favonius ultramarinus hayashii (Shirôzu, 1953) Japan
  - Favonius ultramarinus okumotoi (Koiwaya, 1996)
  - Favonius ultramarinus suffusa (Leech, 1894)
- Favonius unoi Fujioka, 2003
- Favonius watanabei Koiwaya, 2002 Myanmar
- Favonius yuasai Shirôzu, 1948 Japan
  - Favonius yuasai coreensis Myrayama, 1963 South Korea
Subgenus Tasogare Sugiura, 1993
- Favonius saphirinus (Staudinger, 1887) northeastern China, Korea, Japan, Amur Oblast, Ussuri
Incertae sedis
- Favonius latimarginata Murayama, 1963 Japan
- Favonius leechina Lamas, 2008

Former species

Favonius fujisanus Matsumura, 1910 is now Sibataniozephyrus fujisanus (Matsumura, 1910)
Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) is now Neozephyrus quercus North Africa, Europe and Asia Minor
- Favonius quercus iberica (Staudinger, 1901) Morocco, Algeria, Spain
- Favonius quercus interjectus (Verity, 1919)
- Favonius quercus longicaudatus (Riley, 1921) Turkey, Azerbaijan, western Iran

References

"Favonius Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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

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[1] "Favonius Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms