Leptotes (butterfly)
# Leptotes (butterfly)

Leptotes is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as zebra blues in reference to their zebra-striped undersides.

The genus Cyclyrius was recently synonymized with Leptotes and its two species were thus moved to this genus.

## Species

The genus can be divided in several distinct geographic groups which often correspond to clades:

Afrotropical and Palaearctic species:

* Leptotes adamsoni Collins & Larsen, 1991 – Adamson's zebra blue
* Leptotes babaulti (Stempffer, 1935) – Babault's zebra blue
* Leptotes brevidentatus (Tite, 1958) – Tite's zebra blue
* Leptotes casca (Tite, 1958)
* Leptotes cassioides (Capronnier, 1889)
* Leptotes durrelli Fric, Pyrcz & Wiemers, 2019
* Leptotes jeanneli (Stempffer, 1935)
* Leptotes mandersi (Druce, 1907)
* Leptotes marginalis (Stempffer, 1944) – black-bordered zebra blue
* Leptotes mayottensis (Tite, 1958)
* Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767) – Lang's short-tailed blue, common zebra blue
* Leptotes pulcher (Murray, 1874) – beautiful zebra blue
* Leptotes pyrczi Libert, 2011
* Leptotes rabefaner (Mabille, 1877)
* Leptotes sanctithomae (Sharpe, 1893)
* Leptotes socotranus (Ogilvie-Grant, 1899)
* Leptotes webbianus (Brullé, 1839) – Canary blue

Indomalayan species:

* Leptotes plinius (Fabricius, 1793) – zebra blue, plumbago blue

Australasian species:

* Leptotes lybas (Godart, [1824])

Neotropical species:

* Leptotes andicola (Godman & Salvin, 1891)
* Leptotes bathyllos Tessmann, 1928
* Leptotes callanga (Dyar, 1913)
* Leptotes cassius (Cramer, [1775]) – Cassius blue, tropical striped blue
* Leptotes delalande Bálint & Johnson, 1995
* Leptotes lamasi Bálint & Johnson, 1995
* Leptotes marina (Reakirt, 1868) – marine blue, striped blue
* Leptotes parrhasioides (Wallengren, 1860) – Galapagos blue
* Leptotes perkinsae Kaye, 1931
* Leptotes trigemmatus (Butler, 1881)
