''Pithecops'' 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 ...

erected by

Thomas Horsfield Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the East India Company ...

in 1828. Species include: *''

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 ...

'' Horsfield 1828 - forest Quaker *''

Pithecops fulgens ''Pithecops fulgens'', the blue Quaker, is a small butterfly found in India ( Assam), Japan, Vietnam, and China that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Description Male upperside dark brown; medial two-thirds from base to disc of both f ...

'' Doherty 1889 - blue Quaker *''

Pithecops mariae ''Pithecops mariae'' is a small butterfly found in Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 4 ...

'' de Nicéville, 1894 Sumatra, Borneo. *'' Pithecops dionisius'' (Boisduval, 1832) Moluccas, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelage, Solomon Islands *''

Pithecops phoenix ''Pithecops'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Thomas Horsfield in 1828. Species include: *''Pithecops hylax'' Horsfield 1828 - forest Quaker *'' Pithecops fulgens'' Doherty 1889 - blue Quaker *''Pithecops mariae ...

'' (Röber, 1886) Celebes *''

Pithecops corvus ''Pithecops corvus'', the forest Quaker, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Hans Fruhstorfer in 1919. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, ...

'' Fruhstorfer, 1919

References

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