| Drina cowani | |
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| Drina cowani | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Drina |
| Species: | D. cowani |
| Binomial name | |
| Drina cowani | |
Drina cowani is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by Alexander Steven Corbet in 1940. It is found in the Indomalayan realm (Peninsular Malaya, Singapore).
Poritia is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm. Poritia was erected by Frederic Moore in 1887.
Zela is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers.
Drina donina, the brown yamfly is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in Asia.
Cowan's shrew tenrec is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae.
Drina is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Poriskina is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. Its sole species, Poriskina phakos, is known from Mindanao in the Philippines. Both the genus and the species were first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1895.
Simiskina is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The genus was erected by William Lucas Distant in 1886. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Charaxes antamboulou, the Madagascar green-veined charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1872. It is found in Madagascar. The habitat consists of Afrotropical forests and woodland.
Callenya lenya, the long-winged hedge blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
Charaxes velox is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Socotra, an island in the Arabian Sea.
Charaxes cowani is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Madagascar. The habitat consists of montane forests at altitudes above 1,000 meters.
Jamides zebra is a butterfly of the lycaenids or blues family first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1895. It is found in South-east Asia.
Simiskina pasira is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in southern Burma, Thailand and on Peninsular Malaysia, Langkawi, Mindanao and Borneo.
Simiskina pediada is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found from southern Burma to Indochina, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
Arhopala lurida is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family. It is found in Southeast Asia
Drina maneia is a species of butterfly belonging to the lycaenid family described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Oreolyce archena is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Alexander Steven Corbet in 1940. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Arhopala belphoebe is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by William Doherty in 1889. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. The subspecies A. b. cowaniCorbet, 1941 is described from Malaya.
William Deans Cowan was a Scottish naturalist. He was a member of the London Missionary Society who was sent to Madagascar (1874-1881), where he taught Malagasy students at Fianarantsoa. He was an authorities collector of natural history material including lemurs, birds, reptiles, molluscs and insects that were sent to the zoology department of the British Museum under Albert Günther. Much of his plant collection, is also held by that institutions herbarium then under William Carruthers. He also collected insects for John Obadiah Westwood, birds for Alfred Newton and orchids for Henry Nicholas Ridley. He was a Member of the Royal Geographic Society.
