Horaga

Horaga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae which John Nevill Eliot, 1973,[1] places in the tribe Horagini of the subfamily Theclinae. The wings are blue, purple or brown above, with broad black costal and distal margins and usually a white discal spot on the forewing. The female is dingier than the male. The underside is ochreous, or ochreous brown, with a dark postdiscal line on both wings outwardly edged with white, this edging forming a broad white band not continued much above vein 6, on the forewing, but narrower and outwardly diffuse on the hindwing. The hindwing bears filamentous tails at veins 1b, 1 and 3 and, beneath. The pattern of H. araotina is aberrant.[2]

Horaga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Horaga (Moore, 1881)

Range

The genus occurs in Asia, where it is distributed from Sri Lanka to Taiwan, and through the Malay Archipelago to New Guinea.

Species

• Horaga araotina
• Horaga onyx
• Horaga syrinx
• Horaga albimacula
• Horaga chalcedonyx
• Horaga amethystus
• Horaga selina
• Horaga moulmeina
• Horaga viola

Cited references

1. Eliot, J. N. 1973. The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement Bull. BMNH 28/6.
2. Eliot, J. N. (Editor) in Corbet A.S. and Pendlebury H.M. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edition 1991.