Heliophorus

Heliophorus
female H. i. matsumurae, Taiwan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Heliophorini
Genus:	Heliophorus Geyer, 1832
Species
19, see text
Synonyms
Ilerda Doubleday, 1847 Nesa Zhdanko, 1995 Kulua Zhdanko, 1995

Heliophorus is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. It is distributed in tropical Asia.

Species

There are 19 recognized species:

• Heliophorus androcles (Westwood)
• Heliophorus bakeri Evans, 1927
• Heliophorus brahma (Moore, 1857)
• Heliophorus cantliei Eliot, 1965
• Heliophorus coruscans (Moore, 1882)
• Heliophorus epicles (Godart, 1823)
• Heliophorus ila (de Nicéville, 1896)
• Heliophorus indicus (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
• Heliophorus kohimensis (Tytler, 1912)
• Heliophorus langi (Moore, 1883)
• Heliophorus nagaensis Riley, 1929
• Heliophorus nexus Eliot
• Heliophorus oda (Hewitson, 1865)
• Heliophorus saphir (Blanchard, 1871)
• Heliophorus sena (Kollar, 1844)
• Heliophorus stotzneri (Draeseke, 1925)
• Heliophorus tamu (Kollar, 1848)
• Heliophorus viridipunctata (de Nicéville, 1890)
• Heliophorus vulgaris Riley

References

• Media related to Heliophorus at Wikimedia Commons

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