Favonius

Favonius saphirinus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Theclini
Genus:	Favonius Sibatani & Ito, 1942^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942 Quercusia Verity, 1943

Favonius is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Species list

Subgenus Favonius
- Favonius cognatus (Staudinger, 1892) north-eastern China and Korea
  - Favonius cognatus cognatus
  - Favonius cognatus ackeryi (Fujioka, 1994)
  - Favonius cognatus latifasciatus (Shirôzu & Hayashi, 1959) Japan
- Favonius jezoensis (Matsumura, 1915) Sakhalin, Kuriles, Japan (Hokkaido)
  - Favonius jezoensis jezoensis
  - Favonius jezoensis azumajamensis (Kanda, 1994)
  - Favonius jezoensis daisenensis (Tanaka, 1941)
  - Favonius jezoensis magnificans Murayama, 1953
- Favonius korshunovi (Dubatolov & Sergeev, 1982) northeastern China, Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Korea
  - Favonius korshunovi korshunovi
  - Favonius korshunovi macrocercus (Wakabayashi & Fukuda, 1985)
  - Favonius korshunovi shinichiroi Fujioka, 2003
- Favonius leechi (Riley, 1939) Sichuan
- Favonius orientalis (Murray, 1875) Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Kunashir, north-eastern China, Korea, Japan
  - Favonius orientalis orientalis
  - Favonius orientalis shirozui Murayama, 1956
  - Favonius orientalis schischkini Kurentzov, 1970
- Favonius taxila (Bremer, 1861) north-eastern and central China, Amur Oblast, Ussuri, Korea, Japan
- Favonius ultramarinus (Fixsen, 1887) north-eastern China, Korea and Japan
  - Favonius ultramarinus ultramarinus Korea
  - Favonius ultramarinus borealis (Murayama, 1953) Japan
  - Favonius ultramarinus hayashii (Shirôzu, 1953) Japan
  - Favonius ultramarinus okumotoi (Koiwaya, 1996)
  - Favonius ultramarinus suffusa (Leech, 1894)
- Favonius unoi Fujioka, 2003
- Favonius watanabei Koiwaya, 2002 Myanmar
- Favonius yuasai Shirôzu, 1948 Japan
  - Favonius yuasai coreensis Myrayama, 1963 South Korea
Subgenus Tasogare Sugiura, 1993
- Favonius saphirinus (Staudinger, 1887) northeastern China, Korea, Japan, Amur Oblast, Ussuri
Incertae sedis
- Favonius latimarginata Murayama, 1963 Japan
- Favonius leechina Lamas, 2008

Former species

Favonius fujisanus Matsumura, 1910 is now Sibataniozephyrus fujisanus (Matsumura, 1910)
Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) is now Neozephyrus quercus North Africa, Europe and Asia Minor
- Favonius quercus iberica (Staudinger, 1901) Morocco, Algeria, Spain
- Favonius quercus interjectus (Verity, 1919)
- Favonius quercus longicaudatus (Riley, 1921) Turkey, Azerbaijan, western Iran

References

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Wikispecies has information related to Favonius (butterfly).

^ "Favonius Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Favonius". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

Fujioka, T., 1994: Zephyrus (Thechlini butterflies) in the world (5). Genus Favonius. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 7: 3-17.
Fujioka, T., 2003: Descriptions of new species and new subspecies belonging to Tribe Theclini from Myanmar, Vietnam and west China. Gekkan-Mushi 384: 2-10.
Inomata, T., 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18-22.
Hasegawa, T. 2009: Favonius koreanus, the twelfth species of the genus. Gekkan-Mushi, (461): 9-14. ISSN 0388-418X [in Japanese] [not seen]
Sibatani, A. and S. Ito, 1942. Beitrag zur systenatik der Theclinae im kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer berucksichtigung der sogenannten gattung Zephyrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.) 15: 33-46, figs.
images representing Favonius at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Taxon identifiers	Wikidata: Q10824056 Wikispecies: Favonius BioLib: 646833 BOLD: 25508 ButMoth: 11667.0 CoL: 634NH EoL: 32971 Fauna Europaea: 441151 Fauna Europaea (new): 544be8ff-cbd9-4db7-a69c-7658745aadf9 GBIF: 1931282 iNaturalist: 358764 IRMNG: 1207965 LepIndex: 196308 NBN: NHMSYS0021002795 NCBI: 302427 Plazi: 7E3187A4-5362-FFC4-FF58-FF517B1C6EE8