''Favonius'' is a
Palearctic
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Th ...
genus of
butterflies
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in the family
Lycaenidae
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.
Species list
*Subgenus ''Favonius''
** ''
Favonius cognatus''
(Staudinger, 1892) north-eastern
China
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and
Korea
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*** ''Favonius cognatus cognatus''
*** ''Favonius cognatus ackeryi''
(Fujioka, 1994)
*** ''Favonius cognatus latifasciatus''
(Shirôzu & Hayashi, 1959) Japan
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** ''
Favonius jezoensis''
(Matsumura, 1915) Sakhalin
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,
Kuriles
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, Japan (
Hokkaido
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)
*** ''Favonius jezoensis jezoensis''
*** ''Favonius jezoensis azumajamensis''
(Kanda, 1994)
*** ''Favonius jezoensis daisenensis''
(Tanaka, 1941)
*** ''Favonius jezoensis magnificans''
Murayama, 1953
** ''
Favonius korshunovi''
(Dubatolov & Sergeev, 1982) northeastern
China
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,
Amur Oblast
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The administrati ...
,
Ussuri
The Ussuri ( ; ) or Wusuli ( ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China in the province of Heilongjiang. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and formi ...
,
Korea
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*** ''Favonius korshunovi korshunovi''
*** ''Favonius korshunovi macrocercus''
(Wakabayashi & Fukuda, 1985)
*** ''Favonius korshunovi shinichiroi''
Fujioka, 2003
** ''
Favonius leechi''
(Riley, 1939) Sichuan
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** ''
Favonius orientalis''
(Murray, 1875) Amur Oblast
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The administrati ...
,
Ussuri
The Ussuri ( ; ) or Wusuli ( ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China in the province of Heilongjiang. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and formi ...
,
Kunashir
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, north-eastern
China
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,
Korea
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,
Japan
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*** ''Favonius orientalis orientalis''
*** ''Favonius orientalis shirozui''
Murayama, 1956
*** ''Favonius orientalis schischkini''
Kurentzov, 1970
** ''
Favonius taxila''
(Bremer, 1861) north-eastern and central
China
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,
Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The oblast borders Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the south.
The administrati ...
,
Ussuri
The Ussuri ( ; ) or Wusuli ( ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China in the province of Heilongjiang. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and formi ...
,
Korea
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,
Japan
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** ''
Favonius ultramarinus''
(Fixsen, 1887) north-eastern
China
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,
Korea
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and
Japan
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*** ''Favonius ultramarinus ultramarinus''
Korea
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*** ''Favonius ultramarinus borealis''
(Murayama, 1953) Japan
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*** ''Favonius ultramarinus hayashii''
(Shirôzu, 1953) Japan
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*** ''Favonius ultramarinus okumotoi''
(Koiwaya, 1996)
*** ''Favonius ultramarinus suffusa''
(Leech, 1894)
** ''
Favonius unoi''
Fujioka, 2003
** ''
Favonius watanabei''
Koiwaya, 2002 Myanmar
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** ''
Favonius yuasai''
Shirôzu, 1948 Japan
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*** ''Favonius yuasai coreensis''
Myrayama, 1963 South Korea
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*Subgenus ''Tasogare''
Sugiura, 1993
** ''
Favonius saphirinus
''Favonius saphirinus'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Russian Far East, north-eastern China, Korea and Japan.
Subspecies
*''Favonius saphirinus saphirinus'' (Amur, Ussuri)
*''Favonius saphirinus graeseri'' Dantchenk ...
''
(Staudinger, 1887) northeastern
China
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,
Korea
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,
Japan
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,
Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The oblast borders Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the south.
The administrati ...
,
Ussuri
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*''
Incertae sedis
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''
** ''
Favonius latimarginata''
Murayama, 1963 Japan
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** ''
Favonius leechina''
Lamas, 2008
Former species
* ''
Favonius fujisanus''
Matsumura, 1910 is now ''
Sibataniozephyrus fujisanus''
(Matsumura, 1910)
* ''
Favonius quercus''
(Linnaeus, 1758) is now ''
Neozephyrus quercus
The purple hairstreak (''Favonius quercus'') is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae distributed throughout much of Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, Caucasus, Caucasia, and Transcaucasia.
The larva feeds on ''Quercus robur'', ''Quercus petraea'', ...
''
North Africa
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Europe
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and
Asia Minor
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** ''Favonius quercus iberica''
(Staudinger, 1901) Morocco
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,
Algeria
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,
Spain
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** ''Favonius quercus interjectus''
(Verity, 1919)
** ''Favonius quercus longicaudatus''
(Riley, 1921) Turkey
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,
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, western
Iran
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References
* , 1994: ''Zephyrus'' (Thechlini butterflies) in the world (5). Genus ''Favonius''. ''Butterflies (Teinopalpus)'' 7: 3-17.
* , 2003: Descriptions of new species and new subspecies belonging to Tribe Theclini from Myanmar, Vietnam and west China. ''Gekkan-Mushi'' 384: 2-10.
* , 2000. On the genus ''Favonius (s. str.)'' in the continental Ashia. ''Gekkan-Mushi'', (348): 18-22.
* 2009: ''Favonius koreanus'', the twelfth species of the genus. ''Gekkan-Mushi'', (461): 9-14.
n Japanese
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History
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ot seen* and , 1942. Beitrag zur systenatik der Theclinae im kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer berucksichtigung der sogenannten gattung ''Zephyrus'' (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.)'' 15: 33-46, figs.
images representing ''Favonius'' at
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