Famegana

Famegana is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae erected by John Nevill Eliot in 1973. Its single species, Famegana alsulus, the black-spotted grass blue, was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1869. It is found in the Australasian realm.^[1][2]

Famegana
Famegana alsulus alsulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Famegana Eliot, 1973
Species:	F. alsulus
Binomial name
Famegana alsulus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

Subspecies

• F. a. alsulus Torres Strait Island, North Australia - New South Wales
• F. a. lulu (Mathew, 1889) Fiji
• F. a. kalawarus (Ribbe, 1926) Sulawesi
• F. a. eggletoni (Corbet, 1941) Hong Kong