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Palaeophilotes

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Palaeophilotes
Staudingers illustration of Lycaena triphysina in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (figure 2)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Palaeophilotes
Forster, 1938 [1]
Species:
P. triphysina
Binomial name
Palaeophilotes triphysina
(Staudinger, [1892])

Palaeophilotes is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its single species, Palaeophilotes triphysina, (Staudinger, 1892) is endemic to western China.

Lycaena triphysina in Seitz (row d)

References

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  1. ^ Forster, W., 1938. Das system der palàarktischen Polyommatini (Lep. Lycaenidae) Mitteilungen der Münchner entomologischen Gesellschaft 28: 97–118.