Palaeophilotes

Palaeophilotes is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its single species, Palaeophilotes triphysina, (Staudinger, 1892) is endemic to western China.

Lycaena triphysina in Seitz (row d)

Palaeophilotes
Staudingers illustration of Lycaena triphysina in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (figure 2)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Polyommatinae
Tribe:	Polyommatini
Genus:	Palaeophilotes Forster, 1938 [1]
Species:	P. triphysina
Binomial name
Palaeophilotes triphysina (Staudinger, [1892])