Tongeia is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in temperate East Asia. Most species are endemic to China and many species are recently described from China. The best known species is the more widely distributed Tongeia fischeri (Fischer's blue).
Species Tongeia amplifascia Huang, 2001 Tongeia arata Yakovlev, 2009 Tongeia arcana (Leech, 1890) Tongeia bella Huang, 2001 Tongeia bisudu Zhdanko & Yakovlev, 2001 Tongeia burte Churkin, 2003 Tongeia confusa Huang, 2003 Tongeia davidi (Poujade, 1884) Tongeia dongchuanensis H. Huang & Z. Chen, 2006 Tongeia filicaudis (Pryer, 1877) Tongeia fischeri (Eversmann, 1843) Fischer's blue Tongeia germani Yakovlev, 2004 Tongeia hainani (Bethune-Baker, 1914) Tongeia ion (Leech, 1891) Tongeia kala de Nicéville, 1890) Tongeia menpae Huang, 1998 Tongeia minima Shou & Yuan, 2006 Tongeia potanini (Alphéraky, 1889) Tongeia pseudozuthus Huang, 2001 Tongeia shaolinensis Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002 Tongeia zuthus (Leech, 1893)
See also List of butterflies of China (Lycaenidae)
External links
"Tongeia Tutt, " at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms Jeratthitikul, E. Yago, M. Shizuya, H. Yokoyama, J. Tsutomu, H. 2011 " Life history and morphology of the black cupid butterfly, Tongeia kala (de Nicéville) (Lycaenidae), from Myanmar", pdf, Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society