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Miletus chinensis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Miletus

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Similar
  
Miletus, Allotinus, Horaga onyx, Iraota timoleon, Sinthusa nasaka

Miletus chinensis, the common brownie, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Asia.

Subspecies

  • M. c. chinensis (Yunnan to south-eastern China and Hainan)
  • M. c. assamensis (Doherty, 1891) (Kumaon to Assam and Sikkim)
  • M. c. learchus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 (Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, northern Malaya)
  • M. c. longeana (de Nicéville, 1898) (Manipur, Burma) — Long's brownie

    • References

    Miletus chinensis Wikipedia
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