title: Leptotes (butterfly)
text: # 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)
  