Hemiargus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in North and South America.
Hemiargus | |
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Ceraunus blue (Hemiargus ceraunus) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
Tribe: | Polyommatini |
Genus: | Hemiargus Hübner, 1818[1] |
Species
edit- Hemiargus ceraunus (Fabricius, 1793) – Ceraunus blue
- Hemiargus hanno (Stoll, [1790])
- Hemiargus ramon (Dognin, 1887) – Ramon's blue
- Hemiargus huntingtoni Rindge & Comstock, 1953
- Hemiargus martha (Dognin, 1887)
References
editMedia related to Hemiargus at Wikimedia Commons
Wikispecies has information related to Hemiargus.
- ^ a b Hemiargus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- ^ Talavera, G, Lukhtanov, V.A.,Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R. (2012): Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics. 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x