Hyponephele pulchella

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Hyponephele pulchella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Hyponephele
Species:
H. pulchella
Binomial name
Hyponephele pulchella
(C. & R. Felder, [1867])
Synonyms
  • Chortobius pulchella

Hyponephele pulchella is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. [1] It is found from Turkestan to the western parts of the Himalayas and in Afghanistan.

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References

  1. "Hyponephele Muschamp, 1915" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms