''Horaga'' 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 ...

which

John Nevill Eliot Lt. Col. John Nevill Eliot (29 August 1912 – 11 April 2003)''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' was an English entomologist who specialised in Oriental Lepidoptera especially Lycaenidae. He was born in Woolwich, Lo ...

, 1973,Eliot, J. N. 1973. '' The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement'' Bull. BMNH 28/6. places in the tribe

Horagini The Horagini are a small tribe of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. '' Ahmetia'' (formerly called ''Cowania''), sometimes placed here, rather seems to belong to the Cheritrini however, but these are probably the Horagini's closest living re ...

of the subfamily

Theclinae The subfamily Theclinae is a group of butterflies, often referred to as hairstreaks, with some species instead known as elfins or by other names. The group is part of the family Lycaenidae, the "gossamer-winged butterflies". There are many tropi ...

. The wings are blue, purple or brown above, with broad black costal and distal margins and usually a white discal spot on the forewing. The female is dingier than the male. The underside is ochreous, or ochreous brown, with a dark postdiscal line on both wings outwardly edged with white, this edging forming a broad white band not continued much above vein 6, on the forewing, but narrower and outwardly diffuse on the hindwing. The hindwing bears filamentous tails at veins 1b, 1 and 3 and, beneath. The pattern of '' H. araotina'' is aberrant.Eliot, J. N. (Editor) in Corbet A.S. and Pendlebury H.M. '' The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula'' 4th Edition 1991.

Range

The genus occurs in Asia, where it is distributed from

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

, and through the

Malay Archipelago The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

Species

* '' Horaga araotina'' * '' Horaga onyx'' * '' Horaga syrinx'' * '' Horaga albimacula'' * '' Horaga chalcedonyx'' * '' Horaga amethystus'' * '' Horaga selina'' * '' Horaga moulmeina'' * ''

Horaga viola ''Horaga'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae which John Nevill Eliot, 1973,Eliot, J. N. 1973. '' The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement'' Bull. BMNH 28/6. places in the tribe Horagini o ...

Cited references

Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Frederic Moore {{Lycaenidae-stub