''Praephilotes'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
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 ...
.
It contains two species:
"''Praephilotes'' Forster, 1938"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and some other life forms''
*''Praephilotes anthracias
''Praephilotes anthracias'' is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1877. It is known from Kazakhstan (desert tracts of Atyrau Region, southern Altai, near Lake Zaysan, south of the Ili Riv ...
'' (Christoph, 1877)
*'' Praephilotes violacea'' Howarth & Povolný, 1976
References
Polyommatini
Taxa named by Walter Forster (entomologist)
Lycaenidae genera
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