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The Blues (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Lycaeninae) of Papua Indonesia

by Stefan Schröder

 

Hypochrysops protogenes C. & R. Felder, 1865

endemic species!

ssp. protogenes C. & R. Felder, 1865
ssp. pretiosus Grose-Smith, 1894

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Distribution

 

 

 

 

 

STATUS: Very rare.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: ssp. protogenes: Waigeo Island; ssp. pretiosus: Biak Island. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: none.

DATA SOURCES: Literature (see below).

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Sands, D.P.A., 1986. A revision of the genus Hypochrysops C. and R. Felder (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Entomonograph 7: 1-116.