Leptotes (butterfly)

Leptotes
Lang's short-tailed blue (Leptotes pirithous)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Diversity
29 species
Synonyms
  • Cyclyrius Butler, [1897]
  • Langia Tutt, 1906 (non Moore, 1872: preoccupied)
  • Raywardia Tutt, 1908
  • Syntarucoides Kaye, 1904
  • Syntarucus Butler, 1901

Leptotes is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as zebra blues in reference to their zebra-striped undersides.

The genus Cyclyrius was recently synonymized with Leptotes and its two species were thus moved to this genus.[1]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference fricetal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).