Allotinus

Allotinus
Allotinus horsfieldii, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Miletinae
Genus:	Allotinus C. & R. Felder, [1865][1]
Synonyms
Paragerydus Distant, 1884 Miletographa Röber, 1892 Fabitaras Eliot, 1986

Allotinus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.The members (species) of this genus are found in the Indomalaya ecozone.

Sub-Genera of Allotinus:
A - Allotinus (Allotinus) major, ♂, Sulawesi;
B - Allotinus (Fabitaras) taras, ♂, Thailand;
C - Allotinus (Paragerydus) leogoron, ♀, Thailand.

Species

• Subgenus Allotinus
  • Allotinus agnolia Eliot, 1986
  • Allotinus albifasciatus Eliot, 1980
  • Allotinus fallax C. & R. Felder, [1865]
  • Allotinus major C. & R. Felder, [1865]
  • Allotinus maximus Staudinger, 1888
  • Allotinus nicholsi Moulton, [1912]
  • Allotinus otsukai Takanami & Seki, 1990
  • Allotinus subviolaceus C. & R. Felder, [1865]
• Subgenus Fabitaras Eliot, 1986
  • Allotinus bidiensis Eliot, 1986
  • Allotinus borneensis Moulton, 1911
  • Allotinus brooksi Eliot, 1986
  • Allotinus fabius (Distant & Pryer, 1887)
  • Allotinus kudaratus Takanami, 1990
  • Allotinus nigritus (Semper, 1889)
  • Allotinus portunus (de Nicéville, 1894)
  • Allotinus punctatus (Semper, 1889)
  • Allotinus sarrastes Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Allotinus strigatus Moulton, 1911
  • Allotinus taras (Doherty, 1889)
• Subgenus Paragerydus Distant, 1884
  • Allotinus albatus C. & R. Felder, [1865]
  • Allotinus albicans Okubo, 2007
  • Allotinus apries Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Allotinus corbeti Eliot, 1956
  • Allotinus davidis Eliot, 1959
  • Allotinus drumila (Moore, [1866])
  • Allotinus horsfieldi (Moore, [1858])
  • Allotinus leogoron Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • Allotinus luzonensis Eliot, 1967
  • Allotinus macassarensis (Holland, 1891)
  • Allotinus melos (Druce, 1896)
  • Allotinus nivalis (Druce, 1873)
  • Allotinus paetus (de Nicéville, 1895)
  • Allotinus parapus Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Allotinus samarensis Eliot, 1986
  • Allotinus substrigosus (Moore, 1884)
  • Allotinus unicolor C. & R. Felder, [1865]
• Subgenus unknown
  • Allotinus thalebanus Murayama & Kimura, 1990

Former species

• Allotinus distanti Staudinger, 1889 = Logania marmorata palawana

References

1. Allotinus, funet.fi

• Eliot, J. N., 1986. A review of the Miletini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 53(1): 1-105.
• Okubo, K., 2007: A new species of Allotinus (Paragerydus) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from the Philippines. Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 58 (2): 162-164. Abstract and full article: .
• Takanami, Y., 1990. Miscellaneous notes on Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) from South-East Asia (I). Tyô to Ga 41 (2): 67-77. Abstract and full article: .
• Takanami, Y. & Y. Seki, 1990, Notes on Lycaenidae from Borneo and Sumatra, with description of a new species of the genus Allotinus. Futao 5: 1-7.

External links

Media related to Allotinus at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Allotinus at Wikispecies

• Funet Taxonomy Distribution
• Asahi Correctly determined photos of Allotinus species from the Philippines
• Images representing Allotinus at Bold