Palaeophilotes

{{Short description|Monotypic butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae}}

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| image = DeutscheEntomologischeZeitschriftIris1891TafIII.jpg

| image_caption = Staudingers illustration of Lycaena triphysina in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (figure 2)

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| taxon = Palaeophilotes triphysina

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

| authority = (Staudinger, [1892])

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

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