''Pithecops'' is a genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
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 butterfl ...
erected by
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and natural history, naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the Eas ...
in 1828.
Species include:
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Pithecops hylax
''Pithecops hylax'', the forest Quaker, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description
Male upperside: brown, in fresh specimens generally uniform, in some slightly paler along a posterior area f ...
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Horsfield 1828 - forest Quaker
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Pithecops fulgens''
Doherty 1889 - blue Quaker
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Pithecops mariae''
de Nicéville, 1894 Sumatra, Borneo.
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Pithecops dionisius''
(Boisduval, 1832) Moluccas, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelage, Solomon Islands
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Pithecops phoenix''
(Röber, 1886) Celebes
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Pithecops corvus''
Fruhstorfer, 1919
References
Lycaenidae genera
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