Famegana

Famegana Eliot, 1973

Famegana Eliot, 1973 (Section Famegana); Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6): 453, 447; TS: Lycaena alsulus Herrich-Schäffer

Famegana; [CoL] ; [iNaturalist] ; [NHM-BMW]
Famegana (Section Famegana); Hirowatari, 1992, Bull. Univ. Osaka Prefect. (B) 44: 56
Famegana (Fameganina); Stradomsky, 2016, Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1): 152
Famegana (Polyommatini); Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 154

Famegana alsulus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

Australia, S.China, Taiwan, Philippines. See [maps] Black-spotted Grass Blue

Lycaena alsulus Herrich-Schäffer, 1869; Stettin ent. Ztg 30 (1-3): 75
Lycaena exilis Lucas, 1889; Proc. R. Soc. Qd 6 (4): 159, f. 13-15 (preocc. Boisduval, 1852); TL: Cooktown to Bowen
Lycaena gracilis Miskin, 1890; Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 5 (1): 37; TL: Brisbane to Cooktownns
Lycaena exiloides Lucas, 1891; (repl. Lycaena exilis Lucas, 1889); TL: Cooktown to Bowen

Cupido absulus; [CoL]
Famegana alsulus; [BOR], 651; [BAUR], 361; Hirowatari, 1992, Bull. Univ. Osaka Prefect. (B) 44: 56; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 154; Monastyrskii, 2005, Atalanta 36: 158; [CoL] ; [Don Herbison-Evans]
Zizina alsulus; Forster, 1940, Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 30: 874; [BOW]: pl. 182, f. 9

390x528 (~37Kb) underside Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, bushes and trees around a small grassy swampat the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel. 2nd January 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

F. a. alsulus Torres Strait Is., N.Australia - New South Wales (Gloucester)

F. a. lulu (Mathew, 1889) Fiji

Lycaena lulu Mathew, 1889; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889 (2): 312; TL: Tongatabu

Famegana alsulus lulu; [BAUR], 361 (note)
Lycaena lulu; [CoL]
Zizera lulu; Rothschild, 1915, Novit. Zool. 22 (3): 390

F. a. kalawarus (Ribbe, 1926) Sulawesi

Zizera kalawarus Ribbe, 1926; Ent. Mitt. 15 (1): 91; TL: Celebes

Cupido kalawarus; [CoL]
Famegana alsulus kalawarus; Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003, Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 154

F. a. eggletoni (Corbet, 1941) Hong Kong

alsulus eggletoni (Corbet, 1941) (Zizeeria); Hongkong Nat. 10 (3/4): 150

Famegana alsulus eggletoni; [CoL]

References:

[CEB]
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin; issues (PDF)
[CiNii]
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/
[CoL] Catalogue of Life
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-03-26); https://doi.org/10.48580/dfz8d
[Don Herbison-Evans] and Stella A. Crossley
Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths
[NHM-BMW] Natural History Museum
Butterflies and Moths of the World; Generic Names and their Type-species
[Oleg Kosterin] Institue of Cytology & Genetics
Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
[ZOBODAT] Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum
OÖ. Landesmuseum; ZOBODAT - Literatur
[iNaturalist]
iNaturalist
[maps]
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Some related literature:

[BAUR]; D'Abrera, 1977
Butterflies of the Australian Region (2nd edn) Butts. Aust. Region: 1-416
[BOR]; D'Abrera, 1982-1986
Butterflies of the Oriental Region I-III
K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991
Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy Review Austr. Butts. (1): 1-196, (2): 197-335, (3): 336-512, (4): 513-660
Eliot, 1973
The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative Arrangement Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28 (6) : 373-505 (162fgs), pl. 1-6
Forster, 1940
Neue Lycaeniden-Formen aus China. I Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 30 : 870-883, pl. 22-24
Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
Neue Schmetterlinge aus dem "Museum Godeffroy" in Hamburg Stettin ent. Ztg 30 (1-3) : 65-80, pl. 1-4
Hirowatari, 1992
A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae) Bull. Univ. Osaka Prefect. (B) 44 : 1-102
[BOW]; Lewis, 1974
Butterflies of the World
Lucas, 1889
Six new species of Rhopalocera Proc. R. Soc. Qd 6 (4) : 155-161, f. 1-15
Mathew, 1889
Descriptions and life-histories of new species of Rhopalocera from the Western Pacific Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889 (2) : 311-315
Miskin, 1890
Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Australian Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera), principally Lycaenidae Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) 5 (1) : 29-43
Monastyrskii, 2005
New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (3) Atalanta 36 : 141-160
Ribbe, 1926
Neue Lycaenenformen hauptsächlich von Celebes Ent. Mitt. 15 (1) : 78-91
Rothschild, 1915
On the Lepidoptera in the Tring Museum sent by Mr. A. S. Meek from the Admiralty Islands, Dampier and Vulcan Islands Novit. Zool. 22 (2): 192-208, (3): 387-402
Stradomsky, 2016
A molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Polyommatinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Caucasian Ent. Bull. 12 (1) : 145-156
Vane-Wright & de Jong, 2003
The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island faunda Zool. Verh. Leiden 343: 3-268, pl. 1-16

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