Prosotas
{{Short description|Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae}}
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| image = Common Lineblue (Prosotas nora) in Anantgiri, AP W IMG_8820.jpg
| image_caption = Common lineblue (Prosotas nora) in Hyderabad, India
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| authority = H. H. Druce, 1891
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Prosotas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1891. The species of this genus are found on New Guinea in the Australasian realm and the Indomalayan realm. An overview is provided by Hsu and Yen.Hsu, Yu-Feng & Yen, Shen-Horn (2006). "Immature Biology of Prosotas Reveals an Ovipositing Strategy Unusual in Polyommatine Lycaenids (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Polyommatinae), with a Description of a New Subspecies of P. dubiosa from Taiwan". Zoological Studies. 45 (3): 308-321.
Species
Species in alphabetical order:
- Prosotas aluta (H. Druce, 1873) – banded lineblue
- Prosotas atra (Tite, 1963)
- Prosotas bhutea (de Nicéville, [1884]) – Bhutya lineblue
- Prosotas datarica (Snellen, 1892)
- Prosotas dilata (Evans, 1932)
- Prosotas dubiosa (Semper, [1879]) – small purple lineblue, tailess lineblue
- Prosotas ella (Toxopeus, 1930)
- Prosotas elsa (Grose-Smith, 1895)
- Prosotas felderi (Murray, 1874) – Felder's line blue
- Prosotas gracilis (Röber, 1886)
- Prosotas lutea (Martin, 1895)
- Prosotas maputi (Semper, 1889)
- Prosotas nelides (de Nicéville, 1895)
- Prosotas nora (Felder, 1860) – common lineblue
- Prosotas noreia (Felder, 1868) – white-tipped lineblue
- Prosotas norina (Toxopeus, 1929)
- Prosotas papuana (Tite, 1963)
- Prosotas pia (Toxopeus, 1929) – margined lineblue
- Prosotas talesea (Tite, 1963)
References
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External links
- {{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=November 29, 2018 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/polyommatinae/prosotas/ |title=Prosotas Druce, 1891 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=December 16, 2019}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=2758 |title=Taxonomy Browser: Prosotas |website=Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) |accessdate=December 16, 2019}} With images.
- {{Commons category-inline |Prosotas |Prosotas}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline |Prosotas |Prosotas}}
Further reading
- French Wikipedia has more information about this genus at :fr:Prosotas
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