Poriskina

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Poriskina
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Poriskina phakos figure 15
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Poriskina

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P. phakos
Binomial name
Poriskina phakos
H. H. Druce, 1895

Poriskina is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. Its sole species, Poriskina phakos, is known from Mindanao in the Philippines. Both the genus and the species were first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1895.

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