Tajuria cyrillus

Tajuria cyrillus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Tajuria
Species:	T. cyrillus
Binomial name
	Tajuria cyrillus; (Hewitson, 1865) [1]
Synonyms
	Iolaus cyrillusHewitson, 1865;

Last updated February 26, 2019

Tajuria cyrillus is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found only on Sulawesi in Indonesia.

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies. Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, which was about 56 million years ago.

Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies, with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species.

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. The extreme opposite of endemism is cosmopolitan distribution. An alternative term for a species that is endemic is precinctive, which applies to species that are restricted to a defined geographical area.

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References

↑ Tajuria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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[funet-1] Tajuria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms