''Artipe'' is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...

in the family

Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly ...

. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm, the

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...

(Himalayas - China), and the

Australasian realm The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea an ...

(New Guinea). Genus ''Artipe'' was erected by

Jean Baptiste Boisduval Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entom ...

in 1870.

Species

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Artipe anna ''Artipe anna'' is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossam ...

'' (Druce, 1896) *''

Artipe eryx ''Artipe eryx'', the green flash, is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Carl Linnaeus in 1771. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (North India, Burma, China, Indochina, Peninsular Malaya, Taiwan, Borneo, Sulawe ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1771) - green flash *''

Artipe grandis ''Artipe'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm, the Palearctic realm (Himalayas - China), and the Australasian realm (New Guinea). Genus ''Artipe'' was erected by Jean B ...

'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905)

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

*''

Artipe dohertyi ''Artipe'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm, the Palearctic realm (Himalayas - China), and the Australasian realm (New Guinea). Genus ''Artipe'' was erected by Jea ...

'' (Oberthür, 1894) New Guinea

External links

"''Artipe'' Boisduval, 1870"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' * * Deudorigini Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval {{Theclinae-stub