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)