The genus can be divided into 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) ==References==