Miletus chinensis

Updated on Dec 23, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Lycaenidae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Miletus

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

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