Prosotas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1891. The species of this genus are found on New Guinea in the Australasian realm and the Indomalayan realm. An overview is provided by Hsu and Yen.[1]
Species
Species in alphabetical order:
- Prosotas aluta (H. Druce, 1873) – banded lineblue
- Prosotas atra (Tite, 1963)
- Prosotas bhutea (de Nicéville, [1884]) – Bhutya lineblue
- Prosotas datarica (Snellen, 1892)
- Prosotas dilata (Evans, 1932)
- Prosotas dubiosa (Semper, [1879]) – small purple lineblue, tailess lineblue
- Prosotas ella (Toxopeus, 1930)
- Prosotas elsa (Grose-Smith, 1895)
- Prosotas felderi (Murray, 1874) – Felder's line blue
- Prosotas gracilis (Röber, 1886)
- Prosotas lutea (Martin, 1895)
- Prosotas maputi (Semper, 1889)
- Prosotas nelides (de Nicéville, 1895)
- Prosotas nora (Felder, 1860) – common lineblue
- Prosotas noreia (Felder, 1868) – white-tipped lineblue
- Prosotas norina (Toxopeus, 1929)
- Prosotas papuana (Tite, 1963)
- Prosotas pia (Toxopeus, 1929) – margined lineblue
- Prosotas talesea (Tite, 1963)
References
- ^ Hsu, Yu-Feng & Yen, Shen-Horn (2006). "Immature Biology of Prosotas Reveals an Ovipositing Strategy Unusual in Polyommatine Lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), with a Description of a New Subspecies of P. dubiosa from Taiwan". Zoological Studies. 45 (3): 308-321.
External links
- Savela, Markku (November 29, 2018). "Prosotas Druce, 1891". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
- "Taxonomy Browser: Prosotas". Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Retrieved December 16, 2019. With images.
Media related to Prosotas at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Prosotas at Wikispecies
Further reading
- French Wikipedia has more information about this genus at fr:Prosotas