''Artopoetes'' is a genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), 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 ...
. It is a small east Asian genus of tailless
hairstreaks.
Species
* ''
Artopoetes praetextatus''
(Fujioka, 1992)
* ''
Artopoetes pryeri''
(Murray, 1873) northeast China, southern Amur, Ussuri, Korea, Japan (Honshu, Hokkaido)
External links
"''Artopoetes'' Chapman, 1909"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Theclini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Thomas Algernon Chapman
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