Horaga

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Horaga

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Lycaenidae
Tribe:  | Horagini
Genus:  | Horaga
(Moore, 1881)

Horaga is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae which John Nevill Eliot, 1973,[1] places in the tribe Horagini of the subfamily Theclinae. The wings are blue, purple or brown above, with broad black costal and distal margins and usually a white discal spot on the forewing. The female is dingier than the male. The underside is ochreous, or ochreous brown, with a dark postdiscal line on both wings outwardly edged with white, this edging forming a broad white band not continued much above vein 6, on the forewing, but narrower and outwardly diffuse on the hindwing. The hindwing bears filamentous tails at veins 1b, 1 and 3 and, beneath. The pattern of H. araotina is aberrant.[2]

## Range

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The genus occurs in Asia, where it is distributed from Sri Lanka to Taiwan, and through the Malay Archipelago to New Guinea.

## Species

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* Horaga araotina
* Horaga onyx
* Horaga syrinx
* Horaga albimacula
* Horaga chalcedonyx
* Horaga amethystus
* Horaga selina
* Horaga moulmeina
* Horaga viola

## Cited references

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1. ^ Eliot, J. N. 1973.  The Higher Classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): A Tentative Arrangement Bull. BMNH 28/6.
2. ^ Eliot, J. N. (Editor) in Corbet A.S. and Pendlebury H.M.  The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edition 1991.

Taxon identifiers

Horaga|

* Wikidata: Q1314398
* Wikispecies: Horaga
* BioLib: 644935
* ButMoth: 13879.0
* CoL: 4YQZ
* EoL: 32841
* GBIF: 1933012
* iNaturalist: 474299
* IRMNG: 1296053
* LepIndex: 196375
* NCBI: 482367
* Open Tree of Life: 929884

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