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 .
List of species 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)
See also Chrysozephyrus Favonius
References Biolib , 2000. On the genus Favonius (s. str.) in the continental Ashia. Gekkan-Mushi, (348): 18–22. , 2002: Descriptions of seven new species and a new subspecies of Theclini (Lycaenidae) from China and Indo-China. Gekkan-Mushi 373: 5-14. , 1953: On some new Lycaenids from Japan (II). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 4 (2/3): 10–12. Abstract and full article: . and , 1942. Beitrag zur Systematik der Theclinae im Kaiserreich Japan unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der sogenannten Gattung Zephyrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Nature Life (Kyungpook J. bio. Sci.) 15: 33–46, figs.
External links "Neozephyrus Sibatani & Ito, 1942" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms