Corbet et al. (1992) further noted of Hypolycaena:
“The characters are those of the tribe. The genus,
as generally employed to-day, contains a ver y
heterogeneous lot of species. The larva of at least
one typical Oriental species feeds on the flowers of
orchids, as in the very closely allied Chliaria, but the
larvae of atypical species have been found on a variety
of dicotyledons. Distributed throughout the Ethiopian
and Oriental Regions and reaching Australia.”, and
of Chliaria: “Very close to, and doubtfully separable
from, Hypolycaena, the only structural difference being
the more abrupt antennal club, which is somewhat
flattened beneath. The male genitalia [...] are of
the same pattern as those of the typical species of
Hypolycaena; they differ only slightly from one species to
another and those of the component taxa of the othona
complex are similar. […] The genus is distributed
from north India to Taiwan and Sundaland.” There
are 11 species in the Hypolycaena-Chliaria complex in
the Indo-Malayan Region (Table 1).