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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.
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
External links
Savela, Markku (November 29, 2018). "Prosotas Druce, 1891". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
"Taxonomy Browser: Prosotas". Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD). Retrieved December 16, 2019. With images.
Media related to Prosotas at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Prosotas at Wikispecies
Further reading
French Wikipedia has more information about this genus at fr:Prosotas