Neozephyrus
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| Neozephyrus | |
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| Neozephyrus quercus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Tribe: | Theclini |
| Genus: | Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942 |
Neozephyrus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Species in this genus are mainly distributed in East Asia. The larval food plant is alder or - for Neozephyrus quercus - oak .
- Neozephyrus coruscans (Leech, 1894) western and central China
- Neozephyrus dubernardi (Riley, 1939) Yunnan
- Neozephyrus helenae Howarth, 1957 China
- Neozephyrus japonicus (Murray, 1875) Amur Oblast, Ussuri, northeast China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan
- Neozephyrus quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) - purple hairstreak
- Neozephyrus taiwanus (Wileman, 1908) Taiwan
- Neozephyrus uedai Koiwaya, 2003 Burma
- Neozephyrus asahii Fujioka, 2003 China (Kouy Tcheou)
