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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Ptox Toxopeus, 1928 |
Ptox is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. [1]
Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta. He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume monograph on the butterflies of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma and Sri Lanka. He also studied the mantids of the Oriental region.
Charles Thomas Bingham was an Irish military officer and entomologist.
Miletus is a genus of butterflies sometimes called brownies. Its species are found in the eastern Palearctic realm and the Indomalayan realm, and some stray east of the Wallace Line. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner around 1819. Miletus is the type genus of the subfamily Miletinae.
Poritiinae is a subfamily of butterflies, the larvae of which are unusual for feeding on algae and foliate lichen.
Zela is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers.
Niphanda is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae and only member of the Niphandini tribe. The members (species) of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm and the Palearctic realm. The genus was erected by Frederic Moore in 1875.
Plautella is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is a monotypic genus containing Plautella cossaea found in the Indomalayan realm Malaya, Java, Sumatra and Borneo.
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.
Tajuria is an Indomalayan genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Udara is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan and the Australasian realms.
Ge is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1895. It is monotypic, containing the single species Ge geta, described in the same publication, and is found in Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Batoe, Java, Burma, Thailand, Langkawi and Malaya.
Iton is a genus of grassskippers in the family Hesperiidae. It has two species, both found in the Indomalayan realm.
Pudicitia is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It is monotypic, containing the single species Pudicitia pholus from Assam and Bhutan.
Suada is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Niphanda asialis or White-banded Pierrot is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1895. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Suada swerga, the Grass bob, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
