Palaeophilotes
Palaeophilotes is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its single species, Palaeophilotes triphysina, (Staudinger, 1892) is endemic to western China.
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Lycaena triphysina in Seitz (row d)
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| Staudingers illustration of Lycaena triphysina in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (figure 2) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Palaeophilotes Forster, 1938 [1] |
| Species: | P. triphysina |
| Binomial name | |
| Palaeophilotes triphysina (Staudinger, [1892]) | |
References
- Forster, W., 1938. Das system der palàarktischen Polyommatini (Lep. Lycaenidae) Mitteilungen der Münchner entomologischen Gesellschaft 28: 97–118.
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