''Tongeia'' is a
Palearctic
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Th ...
genus
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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 ...
found in temperate East Asia. Most
species
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are
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to China and many species are recently described from China. The best known species is the more widely distributed ''
Tongeia fischeri'' (Fischer's blue).
Species
* ''
Tongeia amplifascia''
Huang, 2001
* ''
Tongeia arata''
Yakovlev, 2009
* ''
Tongeia arcana''
(Leech, 1890)
* ''
Tongeia bella''
Huang, 2001
* ''
Tongeia bisudu''
Zhdanko & Yakovlev, 2001
* ''
Tongeia burte''
Churkin, 2003
* ''
Tongeia confusa''
Huang, 2003
* ''
Tongeia davidi''
(Poujade, 1884)
* ''
Tongeia dongchuanensis''
H. Huang & Z. Chen, 2006
* ''
Tongeia filicaudis''
(Pryer, 1877)
* ''
Tongeia fischeri''
(Eversmann, 1843) Fischer's blue
* ''
Tongeia germani''
Yakovlev, 2004
* ''
Tongeia hainani''
(Bethune-Baker, 1914)
* ''
Tongeia ion''
(Leech, 1891)
* ''
Tongeia kala''
de Nicéville, 1890)
* ''
Tongeia menpae''
Huang, 1998
* ''
Tongeia minima''
Shou & Yuan, 2006
* ''
Tongeia potanini''
(Alphéraky, 1889)
* ''
Tongeia pseudozuthus''
Huang, 2001
* ''
Tongeia shaolinensis''
Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002
* ''
Tongeia zuthus''
(Leech, 1893)
See also
*
List of butterflies of China (Lycaenidae)
External links
"''Tongeia'' Tutt, [1908]"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and some other life forms''
*Jeratthitikul, E. Yago, M. Shizuya, H. Yokoyama, J. Tsutomu, H. 2011
Life history and morphology of the black cupid butterfly, Tongeia kala (de Nicéville) (Lycaenidae), from Myanmar, pdf, ''Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society''
Polyommatini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by J. W. Tutt
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