Tongeia

Tongeia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Tongeia Tutt, 1908

Tongeia is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in temperate East Asia. Most species are endemic to China and many species are recently described from China. The best known species is the more widely distributed Tongeia fischeri (Fischer's blue).

Species[]

• Huang, 2001
• Yakovlev, 2009
• (Leech, 1890)
• Huang, 2001
• Zhdanko & Yakovlev, 2001
• Churkin, 2003
• Huang, 2003
• (Poujade, 1884)
• H. Huang & Z. Chen, 2006
• ） (Pryer, 1877)
• Tongeia fischeri (Eversmann, 1843) Fischer's blue
• Yakovlev, 2004
• (Bethune-Baker, 1914)
• Tongeia ion (Leech, 1891)
• de Nicéville, 1890)
• Huang, 1998
• Shou & Yuan, 2006
• (Alphéraky, 1889)
• Huang, 2001
• Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002
• (Leech, 1893)

See also[]

• List of butterflies of China (Lycaenidae)

External links[]

Wikispecies has information related to Tongeia.

• "Tongeia Tutt, [1908]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
• Jeratthitikul, E. Yago, M. Shizuya, H. Yokoyama, J. Tsutomu, H. 2011 "Life history and morphology of the black cupid butterfly, Tongeia kala (de Nicéville) (Lycaenidae), from Myanmar", pdf, Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society