Pseudochazara | |
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Pseudochazara anthelea | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
Tribe: | Satyrini |
Subtribe: | Satyrina |
Genus: | Pseudochazara de Lesse, 1951 |
Pseudochazara is a genus of butterflies within the family Nymphalidae.
Satyrus is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The genus was erected by Pierre André Latreille in 1810. The species in the genus Satyrus occur in Europe and North Africa.
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Chazara is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae of the brush-footed butterfly family (Nymphalidae). The most well-known is the hermit butterfly. C. briseis can be found as far west as Morocco and as far eastward as Mongolia. They inhabit the Tian Shan mountain range of Central Asia, also known as the Celestial Mountains, which are fabled in Daoist literature as the place where the Goddess of the West attends to the Peaches of Immortality.
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