| Yellow onyx | |
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| Horaga syrinx maena | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Horaga |
| Species: | H. syrinx |
| Binomial name | |
| Horaga syrinx (C. Felder, 1860) | |
Horaga syrinx, the yellow onyx, is a species of lycaenid or hairstreak butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm and (crossing the Wallace Line) New Guinea.
H. syrinx is found in northern India, Malaya, Indonesia, Philippines, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and New Guinea [1]
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