Chaetoprocta | |
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Chaetoprocta odata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Tribe: | Theclini |
Genus: | Chaetoprocta de Nicéville, 1890 [1] |
Chaetoprocta is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Listed alphabetically: [1]
Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta. He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume monograph on the butterflies of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma and Sri Lanka.
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Charles Thomas Bingham was an Irish military officer and entomologist.
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Celastrina is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae found in the Palearctic, Nearctic, Indomalayan and Australasian realms.
Cigaritis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Afrotropical realm, the Indomalayan realm and adjacent regions of Asia.
Esakiozephyrus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Esakiozephyrus species are found in the Western Himalayan broadleaf forests, and in similar habitats in Burma, Tibet and Nepal.
Flos is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are commonly known as plushblues and are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Coladenia is an Oriental genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae. They are found throughout most of Southern, Southeastern, and Eastern Asia. The genus contains the following fifteen species:
Neptis cartica, the plain sailer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia.
Arhopala paraganesa, the dusky bushblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1882. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Oriens, the dartlets, is a genus of grass skippers, butterflies in the subfamily Hesperiinae (Hesperiidae). The genus was described by William Harry Evans in 1932.
Arhopala singla, the pointed oakblue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville in 1885. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Issoria mackinnonii is a small brown-chequered-with-black (fritillary) butterfly found in the Palearctic region that belongs to the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1891. It is found in the Nila and Baspa river valleys, the northwest Himalayas and central Nepal.
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Ochus subvittatus, the tiger hopper, is the only species in the monotypic moth genus Ochus of the family Hesperiidae. The genus was erected by Lionel de Nicéville in 1894. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1878. It is found in the Khasi Hills and Naga Hills of India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Yunnan.