Zizeeria
| Zizeeria | |
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| Dark grass blue (Zizeeria karsandra) in Hyderabad, India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Zizeeria Chapman, 1910 |
| Species | |
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Two, see text | |
Zizeeria, commonly called grass blues, is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, found in Africa and Asia.
Species
[edit]List of species classified under the genus:[1][2][3]
- Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865) – dark grass blue
- Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862) – African grass blue, sooty blue[4]
Notes
[edit]The following were previously included here due to online database listings but can be placed elsewhere:
- Zizeeria antanossa (Mabille, 1877). A species or subspecies later in Zizina Chapman, 1910.
- Zizeeria otis (Fabricius, 1787). A species in Zizina Chapman, 1910.
- Zizeeria labradus (Godart, 1823). A species or subspecies later in Zizina Chapman, 1910.
- Zizeeria ossa (Swinhoe, 1885). A subspecies of Pseudozizeeria maha (Kollar, [1844]).
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Zizeeria taxonomy.
- ↑ Zizeeria, Savela, M. Polyommatini.
- ↑ LepIndex: synonymic list for superfamily Papilionoidea family Lycaenidae; subfamily Polyommatinae
- ↑ Williams, M.Afrotropical Butterflies.
- ↑ Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.