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Tomares (butterfly)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Tribe
  
Tomarini

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Insecta

Subfamily
  
Theclinae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Similar
  
Tomares ballus, Butterflies and moths, Pseudophilotes, Laeosopis, Glaucopsyche

Tomares is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. They are presently the only genus in the tribe Tomarini. As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, this is preliminary however. The species are found in the Palearctic.

Species

  • Tomares ballus Fabricius, 1787 - Provence hairstreak or cardenillo - Iberian Peninsula, Northern Africa, Mediterranean France
  • Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848) Iran, Iraq, Caucasus
  • Tomares desinens Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1980 Azerbaijan
  • Tomares fedtschenkoi (Erschoff, 1874) Afghanistan, northern Pakistan
  • Tomares mauretanicus (Lucas, 1849) - Moroccan hairstreak - northern Africa
  • Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine
  • Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882) Armenia, Turkey, Iran
  • Tomares telemachus Zhdanko, 2000 Kopet-Dagh
  • References

    Tomares (butterfly) Wikipedia