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Prosotas
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.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Tailless Lineblue
speciesProsotas dubiosa

Common Line Blue
speciesProsotas nora

Short-tailed Line-blue
speciesProsotas felderi

Barred Lineblue
speciesProsotas aluta

Brown Lineblue
speciesProsotas lutea

Dark-based Lineblue
speciesProsotas gracilis

White-tipped Line Blue
speciesProsotas noreia

Margined Lineblue
speciesProsotas pia

Bhutya Lineblue
speciesProsotas bhutea

Prosotas ella
speciesProsotas ella

Prosotas patricae
speciesProsotas patricae

Prosotas nelides
speciesProsotas nelides

Prosotas atra
speciesProsotas atra

Prosotas papuana
speciesProsotas papuana

Prosotas maputi
speciesProsotas maputi

Prosotas norina
speciesProsotas norina
Prosotas talesea
speciesProsotas talesea
Prosotas datarica
speciesProsotas datarica
Prosotas elsa
speciesProsotas elsa
Prosotas russelli
speciesProsotas russelli
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Prosotas in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 125580.