Hypolycaena toshikoae

Hypolycaena toshikoae
Male
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Hypolycaena
Species:	H. toshikoae
Binomial name
Hypolycaena toshikoae H. Hayashi. 1984[1]

Hypolycaena toshikoae is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. Forewing length:10-13mm. It is endemic to the Philippines (Luzon & Mindoro). On Mt. Halcon of Mindoro Island male is not rare but female is very rare.^[2]

References

1. Hypolycaena at funet
2. On Hypolycaena from Maluku, Indonesia, including the first description of male Hypolycaena asahi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)

• Hayashi Hisakazu, 1984: New Synonyms, New Status, New Combinations, New Species and New Subspecies of Butterflies from the Philippines and Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Satyridae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae). IWASE.2:9-34.
• Treadaway, Colin G., 1955: Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands. Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, Suppl. 14: 7-118.
• Takanami, Y. & Seki, Y., 2001: A synonymic list of Lycaenidae from the Philippines. Edn. 12.
• Hayashi, Hisakazu, 2011: A new record of male of Hypolycaena toshikoae from Mindoro Is. in the Philippines (Text in Japanese). YADORIGA. 228:32-33. .
• Treadaway, Colin G. & Schrőder, Heinz G., 2012: Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, Suppl. 20: 1-64.