Drupadia cineas

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Drupadia cineas
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From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Drupadia
Species:
D. cineas
Binomial name
Drupadia cineas
(Grose-Smith, 1889) [1]
Synonyms
  • Sithon cineasGrose-Smith, 1889
  • Biduanda hewitsoniiDruce, 1895
  • Biduanda hewitsonii var. parvaMoulton, [1912]

Drupadia cineas is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1889. It is endemic to Borneo. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Grose-Smith, 1889 Descriptions of ten more new Species of Butterflies captured by Mr. John Whitehead at Kina Balu Mountain, North Borneo Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 3 (16) : 312-319
  2. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9


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