''Monodontides'' 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 and the bordering

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 ...

Species

*Subgenus ''Buakraengius'' Eliot and Kawazoé, 1983 **'' Monodontides cara'' (de Nicéville, 1898) *Subgenus ''Monodontides'' Toxopeus, 1927 **'' Monodontides apona'' (Fruhstorfer, 1910) **'' Monodontides argioloides'' (Rothschild, 1915) **'' Monodontides chapmani'' Cassidy, 2003 **'' Monodontides hondai'' Eliot and Kawazoé, 1983 **'' Monodontides kolari'' (Ribbe, 1926) **'' Monodontides luzonensis'' Eliot and Kawazoé, 1983 **'' Monodontides musina'' (Snellen, 1892) **'' Monodontides ternatensis'' Eliot and Kawazoé, 1983

References

*D'Abrera, B., 1978. ''Butterflies of the Australian Region'', edn 2. 415 pp. Melbourne. *Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. ''Blue butterflies of the ''Lycaenopsis'' group'': 1-309, 6 pls. London *Toxopeus, 1927b-1928: Eine Revision der javanischen, zu ''Lycaenopsis'' und verwandten Genera gehörigen Arten. ''Tijdschrift voor Entomologie'' 70: 232-302, 1pl., 27 figs; ''Tijdschrift voor Entomologie'' 71: 179-265, 1 pl., 29 figs. Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus {{Polyommatini-stub

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