Hypolycaena

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Hypolycaena
Hypolycaena sipylus (Mindanao, Philippines).jpg
Hypolycaena sipylus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Hypolycaenini
Genus: Hypolycaena
C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862
Synonyms
  • TaturaButler, 1888

Hypolycaena is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. Hypolycaena species are found in the Australasian, Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms.

Species

Hypolycaena from William Chapman Hewitson's Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera IllustrationsDiurnalLepidopteraPlate23.jpg
Hypolycaena from William Chapman Hewitson's Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera


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