Hemiargus

Hemiargus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in North and South America.

Hemiargus
Ceraunus blue (Hemiargus ceraunus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Hemiargus
Hübner, 1818[1]

Species

Listed alphabetically:[1][2]

  • Hemiargus ceraunus (Fabricius, 1793) – Ceraunus blue
  • Hemiargus hanno (Stoll, [1790])
  • Hemiargus ramon (Dognin, 1887) – Ramon's blue
  • Hemiargus huntingtoni Rindge & Comstock, 1953
  • Hemiargus martha (Dognin, 1887)
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References

Media related to Hemiargus at Wikimedia Commons

  1. Hemiargus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
  2. Talavera, G, Lukhtanov, V.A.,Pierce, N.E. & Vila, R. (2012): Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics. 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00421.x


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