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Specimen of Pseudolycaena marsyas from Guyana | |
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Genus: | Pseudolycaena Wallengren, 1858 |
Pseudolycaena is a Neotropical genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Species of this genus occur in Central and South America from Mexico to Argentina.
Allotinus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The genus was erected by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1865. The members (species) of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Poritia is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm. Poritia was erected by Frederic Moore in 1887.
The Aphnaeinae are a subfamily of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Ceryx is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1863.
Evenus is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae, with species ranging from North to South America.
Hypolycaena is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. Hypolycaena species are found in the Australasian, Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms.
Iolaus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The genera Argiolaus, Epamera, Iolaphilus and Stugeta are often included in Iolaus. Iolaus species are found in the Afrotropical realm.
Leptotes is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as zebra blues in reference to their zebra-striped undersides.
Poliopastea is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1898.
Ministrymon is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical realms.
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.
Prosotas is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1891. The species of this genus are found on New Guinea in the Australasian realm and the Indomalayan realm. An overview is provided by Hsu and Yen.
Pseudaletis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Afrotropical realm.
Psychonotis is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Australasian realm.
Tajuria is an Indomalayan genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Ziegleria is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae erected by Kurt Johnson in 1993. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical realm.
Cooksonia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae first described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1905. Cooksonia is endemic to the Afrotropical realm.
Acontia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was named by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. Eusceptis, Pseudalypia and Spragueia are sometimes included in the present genus, but here they are tentatively treated as different pending further research. Many species of Tarache were also once placed here.
Pseudolycaena marsyas, the Cambridge blue, giant hairstreak or Marsyas hairstreak, is a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce was an English entomologist who specialised in Lycaenidae and to a lesser extent Hesperiidae. He is not to be confused with his father, the English entomologist Herbert Druce (1846–1913) who also worked on Lepidoptera.
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