Drucina

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Drucina
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Drucina championi, figures 15 and 16
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subtribe: Pronophilina
Genus: Drucina
Butler, 1872

Drucina is a Neotropical butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. [1] [2]

Species

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References

  1. Butterflies of America
  2. "Drucina Butler, 1872" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms