Thaumaina

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Thaumaina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Thaumaina
Bethune-Baker, 1908
Species:
T. uranothauma
Binomial name
Thaumaina uranothauma
Bethune-Baker, 1908

Thaumaina is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. [1] [2] [3] It is monotypic, containing the single species Thaumaina uranothauma.

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References

  1. Bethune-Baker, G. T. (June 1908), "Descriptions of new Species of Butterflies of the Division Rhopalocera from Africa and from New Guinea", Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 78 (1): 110–126, doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1908.tb01838.x
  2. Hirowatari, Toshiya (July 1, 1992), "A Generic Classification of the Tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian Regions : Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae", Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture. Ser. B, Agriculture and Biology, B, Agriculture and biology, 44 (supplement), University of Osaka Prefecture: 1–102, hdl:10466/3326
  3. Parsons, Michael (1998), The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea: Their Systematics and Biology, Princeton University Press, ISBN   978-0-12-545555-8