| Mashuna | |
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| Mashuna mashuna | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Satyrini |
| Genus: | Mashuna van Son, 1955 |
| Type species | |
| Ypthima mashuna Trimen, 1895 | |
| Diversity | |
| Two species | |
| Synonyms | |
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