Hypochrysops

Hypochrysops
H. halyaetus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Hypochrysops C. & R. Felder, 1860
Species
See text
Synonyms
Waigeum Staudinger, 1895

Hypochrysops is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. This particular genus is exclusive to the Australian area with only a few species straying into Papua New Guinea.

Food sources

The mistletoe plant is ambiguously claimed to be a food source for at least some species of Hypochrysops.

This might be so, but raises some questions because most Lycaenidae have parasitic or mutualistic, often highly specific, relationships with various species of ants, and ants have been reported to carry the eggs of the Apollo jewel butterfly (Hypochrysops apollo apollo) into their colonies inside ant plants of the genus Myrmecodia. Myrmecodia species have certain superficial resemblances to "mistletoes", but are epiphytic, not markedly parasitic, and are not in any parasitic plant family; they are in fact in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. It seems likely that Hypochrysops apollo apollo at least, might feed exclusively on ant food and ant larvae.

Species

• Hypochrysops alyattes - Druce 1891
• Hypochrysops anacletus - Felder 1860
• Hypochrysops antiphon - Grose-Smith 1897
• Hypochrysops apelles - Fabricius 1775

• H. a. singkepe - D'Abrera 1977

• Hypochrysops apollo - Miskin 1891

• H. a. phoebus - Waterhouse 1928
• H. a. wendisi - Bethune-Baker 1909

• Hypochrysops architas - Druce 1891

• H. a. cratevas - Druce 1891
• H. a. suethes - Druce 1891

• Hypochrysops aristocles - Grose-Smith 1898
• Hypochrysops argyriorufa - van Eecke 1924
• Hypochrysops arronica - Felder 1859
• Hypochrysops aurantiaca - Yagishita 2004
• Hypochrysops bakeri - Joicey & Talbot 1916
• Hypochrysops boisduvali - Oberthür 1894
• Hypochrysops byzos - Boisduval 1832

• H. b. hecalius

• Hypochrysops calliphon - Grose-Smith 1894
• Hypochrysops castaneus - Sands 1986
• Hypochrysops chrysanthis - Felder 1860
• Hypochrysops chrysargyra - Grose-Smith & Kirby 1895
• Hypochrysops chrysodesmus - Grose-Smith & Kirby 1899
• Hypochrysops chrysotoxus - Grose-Smith & Kirby 1890
• Hypochrysops cleon - Grose-Smith 1900
• Hypochrysops coelisparsus - Butler 1883

• H. c. kerri - Riley 1932

• Hypochrysops coruscans - Grose-Smith 1897

• H. c. subcaeruleum - Grose-Smith & Kirby 1896
• H. c. ceramicum - Druce 1903
• H. c. dinawa - Bethune-Baker 1908

• Hypochrysops cyane - Waterhouse & Lyell 1914
• Hypochrysops delicia - Hewitson 1875

• H. d. delos - Waterhouse & Lyell 1914
• H. d. duaringae - Waterhouse 1903
• H. d. regina - Grose-Smith & Kirby 1895

• Hypochrysops dicomus - Hewitson 1874
• Hypochrysops digglesii - Hewitson 1874
• Hypochrysops dohertyi - Oberthür 1894
• Hypochrysops doleschallii - Felder 1860
• Hypochrysops elgneri - Waterhouse & Lyell 1909

• H. e. barnardi - Waterhouse 1934

• Hypochrysops emiliae - D'Abrera 1971
• Hypochrysops epicurus - Miskin 1876
• Hypochrysops eucletus - Felder 1865

• H. e. dyope - Grose-Smith & Kirby 1895
• H. e. eratosthenes - Fruhstorfer 1908
• H. e. menandrus - Fruhstorfer 1908
• H. e. vulcanicus - D'Abrera 1971

• Hypochrysops eunice - Fruhstorfer 1915
• Hypochyrsops felderi - Oberthür 1894
• Hypochrysops ferruguineus - Sands 1986
• Hypochrysops geminatus - Sands 1986
• Hypochrysops halyaetus - Hewitson 1874
• Hypochrysops herdonius - Hewitson 1874
• Hypochrysops heros - Grose-Smith 1894

• H. h. imogena - D'Abrera 1971
• H. h. polemon - Fruhstorfer 1915

• Hypochrysops hippuris - Hewitson 1874
• Hypochrysops honora - Grose-Smith 1898
• Hypochrysops hypates - Hewitson 1874

• H. h. zeuxis - Staudinger 1888

• Hypochrysops ignita - Leach 1814

• H. i. chrysonotus - Grose-Smith 1899
• H. i. erythrina - Waterhouse & Lyell 1909
• H. i. olliffi - Miskin 1889

• Hypochrysops lucilla - D'Abrera 1971
• Hypochrysops luteus - Sands 1986
• Hypochrysops makrikii - Ribbe 1900
• Hypochrysops meeki - Rothschild & Jordan 1905
• Hypochrysops mioswara - Bethune-Baker 1913
• Hypochrysops mirabillis - Pagenstecher 1894
• Hypochrysops miraculum - Druce & Bethune-Baker 1893
• Hypochrysops miskini - Waterhouse 1903
• Hypochrysops narcissus - Fabricius 1775
• Hypochrysops pagenstecheri - Ribbe 1899
• Hypochrysops piceata - Kerr, Macqueen & Sands 1969
• Hypochrysops plotinus - Grose-Smith 1894
• Hypochrysops polycletus - Linnaeus 1758

• H. p. atromarginata - Druce 1891
• H. p. brunnea - Druce 1903
• H. p. epicletus - Felder 1859
• H. p. hylaithus - Fruhstorfer 1908
• H. p. hypochrysops - Oberthür 1880
• H. p. kaystrus - Fruhstorfer 1908
• H. p. linos - Fruhstorfer 1908
• H. p. menyllus - Fruhstorfer 1908
• H. p. oineus - Fruhstorfer 1908
• H. p. rex - Boisduval 1832
• H. p. rovena - Druce 1891

• Hypochrysops pratti - Bethune-Baker 1913
• Hypochrysops protogenes - Felder 1865

• H. p. cleonides - Grose-Smith 1900
• H. p. hermogenes - Grose-Smith 1894
• H. p. pretiosus - Grose-Smith 1894
• H. p. thesaurus - Grose-Smith 1894

• Hypochrysops pyrodes - Cassidy 2003
• Hypochrysops pythias - Felder 1865

• H. p. aurifer - Grose-Smith 1898
• H. p. drucei - Oberthür 1894
• H. p. euclides - Miskin 1889

• Hypochrysops resplendens - Bethune-Baker 1908
• Hypochrysops ribbei - Röber 1886
• Hypochrysops rufimargo - Rothschild 1915
• Hypochrysops rufinus - Grose-Smith 1898
• Hypochrysops scintillans - Butler 1882

• H. s. carveri - D'Abrera 1971
• H. s. carolina - D'Abrera 1971
• H. s. constancea - D'Abrera 1971
• H. s. squalliensis - D'Abrera 1971

• Hypochrysops simplex - Grose-Smith & Kirby 1896
• Hypochrysops siren - Grose-Smith 1894
• Hypochrsops taeniata - Jordan 1908
• Hypochrysops thauma - Staudinger 1895
• Hypochrysops theon - Felder 1865

• H. t. alix - Grose-Smith 1900
• H. t. carmen - Grose-Smith & Kirby 1899
• H. t. medocus - Fruhstorfer 1908
• H. t. theonides - Grose-Smith 1894
• H. t. theophanes - Grose-Smith 1894

• Hypochrysops thesaurus - Grose-Smith 1894
• Hypochrysops utyi - Bethune-Baker 1913

References

Hypochrysops Data Base