Prosotas

Prosotas
Common lineblue ( Prosotas nora ) in Hyderabad, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Prosotas H. H. Druce, 1891

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) New Britain°
• Prosotas bhutea (de Nicéville, [1884]) – Bhutya lineblue
• Prosotas datarica (Snellen, 1892) Indonesia, Java.
• Prosotas dilata (Evans, 1932)
• Prosotas dubiosa (Semper, [1879]) – small purple lineblue, tailess lineblue
• Prosotas ella (Toxopeus, 1930) Sulawesi
• Prosotas elsa (Grose-Smith, 1895) Indonesia, Moluccas, Ambon
• Prosotas felderi (Murray, 1874) – Felder's line blue Queensland
• Prosotas gracilis (Röber, 1886)
• Prosotas lutea (Martin, 1895)
• Prosotas maputi (Semper, 1889) Philippines
• Prosotas nelides (de Nicéville, 1895) Indonesia, Sumatra
• Prosotas nora (Felder, 1860) – common lineblue
• Prosotas noreia (Felder, 1868) – white-tipped lineblue
• Prosotas norina (Toxopeus, 1929) Indonesia, Java
• Prosotas papuana (Tite, 1963) New Guinea, Hydrographer Mountains
• Prosotas pia (Toxopeus, 1929) – margined lineblue
• Prosotas talesea (Tite, 1963) New Britain

References

1. 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