Satyrium (butterfly)

"Chrysophanus" redirects here. This rejected name was also applied to Lycaena .

Satyrium
Satyrium pruni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Eumaeini
Genus:	Satyrium Scudder, 1876
Species
Numerous, see text
Synonyms
ChrysophanusHübner, 1818 (suppressed) ArgusGerhard, 1850 (non Bohadsch, 1761: preoccupied) CallipsycheScudder, 1876 Neolycaenade Nicéville, 1890 BakeriiaTutt, 1907 (non Kieffer, 1905: preoccupied) EdwardsiaTutt, 1907 (non Costa, 1838: preoccupied) ErschoffiaTutt, 1907 (non Swinhoe, 1900: preoccupied) FixseniaTutt, 1907 FelderiaTutt, 1907 (non Walsingham, 1887: preoccupied) KlugiaTutt, 1907 (non Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: preoccupied) KollariaTutt, 1907 (non Pictet, 1841: preoccupied) LeechiaTutt, 1907 (non South, 1901: preoccupied) NordmanniaTutt, 1907 ChattendeniaTutt, 1908 StrymonidiaTutt, 1908 SuperfluaStrand, 1910 TheclioliaStrand, 1910 TuttiolaStrand, 1910 PhaeostrymonClench, 1961 PseudotheclaStrand, 1910 NecovatiaVerity, 1951 EuristrymonClench, 1961 Harkenclenusdos Passos, 1971 RhymnariaZhdanko, 1983 ArmeniaDublatov & Korshunov, 1984

The genus Satyrium contains butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Holarctic ecozone.

Species

Listed alphabetically within species group. ^[1]

The Satyrium species group:

• Satyrium acadica (Edwards, 1862) – Behr's hairstreak
• Satyrium alcestis (Edwards, 1871) – soapberry hairstreak
• Satyrium auretorum (Boisduval, 1852) – gold hunter's hairstreak
• Satyrium behrii (Edwards, 1870) – Behr's hairstreak
• Satyrium calanus (Hübner, 1809) – banded hairstreak
• Satyrium californica (Edwards, 1862) – California hairstreak
• Satyrium caryaevorum (McDunnough, 1942) – hickory hairstreak
• Satyrium curiosolus MacDonald, 2025 - curiously isolated hairstreak ^[2]
• Satyrium edwardsii (Grote and Robinson, 1867) – Edward's hairstreak
• Satyrium fuliginosum (Edwards, 1861) – sooty hairstreak
• Satyrium iyonis (Oxta and Kusunoki, 1957)
• Satyrium kingi (Klots and Clench, 1952) – King's hairstreak
• Satyrium liparops (Boisduval and Leconte, 1833) – striped hairstreak
• Satyrium saepium (Boisduval, 1852) – hedgerow hairstreak
• Satyrium semiluna Klots, 1930 - sagebrush sooty hairstreak or half-moon hairstreak
• Satyrium sylvinus (Boisduval, 1852) – sylvan hairstreak
• Satyrium tetra (Edwards, 1870) – mountain mahogany hairstreak
• Satyrium titus (Fabricius, 1793) – coral hairstreak

The Armenia species group:

• Satyrium hyrcanicum (Riley, 1939) – Hyrcanian hairstreak
• Satyrium ledereri (Boisduval, 1848) – orange banded hairstreak

The Nordmannia species group:

• Satyrium armena (Rebel, 1901) – Rebel's hairstreak Turkey, Russe-Armenia
• Satyrium abdominalis (Gerhard, 1850) – Gerhard's black hairstreak
• Satyrium acaciae (Fabricius, 1787) – sloe hairstreak
• Satyrium esculi (Hübner, 1804) – false ilex hairstreak
• Satyrium eximia (Fixsen, 1887)
• Satyrium favonius (Smith, 1797) – southern hairstreak
• Satyrium guichardi (Higgins, 1965)
• Satyrium herzi (Fixsen, 1887)
• Satyrium ilavia (Beutenmüller, 1899)
• Satyrium ilicis (Esper, 1779) – ilex hairstreak
• Satyrium latior (Fixsen, 1887)
• Satyrium myrtale (Klug, 1834)
• Satyrium polingi (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
• Satyrium pruni (Linnaeus, 1758) – black hairstreak
• Satyrium prunoides (Staudinger, 1887)
• Satyrium runides (Zhdanko, 1990)
• Satyrium spini (Schiffermüller, 1775) – blue spot hairstreak
• Satyrium tateishii (Matsumoto, 2006)
• Satyrium thalia (Leech, 1893)
• Satyrium w-album (Knoch, 1782) – white-letter hairstreak

The Superflua species group:

• Satyrium acaudata Staudinger, 1901
• Satyrium deria (Moore, 1865)
• Satyrium goniopterum Lukhtanov, 1995
• Satyrium khowari Charmeux, 2004
• Satyrium lunulata (Erschoff, 1874)
• Satyrium mirabilis (Erschoff, 1874)
• Satyrium persepolis Eckweiler & ten Hagen, 2003
• Satyrium sassanides (Kollar, [1849]) – whiteline hairstreak

Unknown species group:

• Satyrium austrina (Murayama, 1943)
• Satyrium dejeani (Riley, 1939)
• Satyrium esakii (Shirôzu, 1941)
• Satyrium formosana (Matsumura, 1910)
• Satyrium grandis (Felder and Felder, 1862)
• Satyrium inouei (Shirôzu, 1959)
• Satyrium iyonis (Oxta & Kusunoki, 1957)
• Satyrium jebelia Nakamura, 1975
• Satyrium kongmingi Murayama, 1992
• Satyrium kuboi (Chou and Tong, 1994)
• Satyrium lais (Leech, 1892)
• Satyrium mackwoodi (Evans, 1914) – Mackwood's hairstreak
• Satyrium marcidus (Riley, 1921)
• Satyrium mardinus van Oorschot, van den Brink, van Oorschot, 1985
• Satyrium mera (Janson, 1873)
• Satyrium minshanicum Murayama, 1992
• Satyrium neoeximia Murayama, 1992
• Satyrium oenone Leech, [1893]
• Satyrium ornata (Leech, 1890)
• Satyrium patrius (Leech, 1891)
• Satyrium percomis (Leech, 1894)
• Satyrium persimilis (Riley, 1939)
• Satyrium phyllodendri (Elwes, [1882])
• Satyrium pseudopruni Murayama, 1992
• Satyrium redae Bozano, 1993
• Satyrium rubicundula (Leech, 1890)
• Satyrium siguniangshanicum Murayama, 1992
• Satyrium tanakai (Shirôzu, 1942)
• Satyrium v-album (Oberthür, 1886)
• Satyrium watarii (Matsumura, 1927)
• Satyrium xumini Huang, 2001
• Satyrium yangi (Riley, 1939)
• Satyrium volt (Sugiyama, 1993)

Gallery

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  Satyrium ilicis
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  Satyrium spini
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  Satyrium calanus
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  Satyrium edwardsii
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  Satyrium favonius
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  Satyrium liparops
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  Satyrium mera
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  Satyrium pruni
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  Satyrium saepium
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  Satyrium titus
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  Satyrium w-album

References

1. "Satyrium Scudder, 1876" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. MacDonald ZG, Dupuis JR, Glasier JRN, Sissons R, Moehrenschlager A, Shaffer HB, Sperling FAH (2025) Genomic and ecological divergence support recognition of a new species of endangered Satyrium butterfly (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). ZooKeys 1234: 291-307. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1234.143893

• Biolib
• Images representing Satyrium

Further reading

• Satyrium ("Le genre Satyrium") provides distribution information in French Wikipedia.

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