Famegana
Famegana is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae erected by John Nevill Eliot in 1973. Its single species, Famegana alsulus, the black-spotted grass blue, was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1869. It is found in the Australasian realm.[1][2]
| Famegana | |
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| Famegana alsulus alsulus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Famegana Eliot, 1973 |
| Species: | F. alsulus |
| Binomial name | |
| Famegana alsulus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) | |
Subspecies
- F. a. alsulus Torres Strait Island, North Australia - New South Wales
- F. a. lulu (Mathew, 1889) Fiji
- F. a. kalawarus (Ribbe, 1926) Sulawesi
- F. a. eggletoni (Corbet, 1941) Hong Kong
References
- Eliot, J. N. (1973). "The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). (28) 6: 375–505, 162 figs., 6 pls.
- Hirowatari, T. (1992). "A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae)". Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture. (B), 44 (Suppl.)
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