Ticherra
Appearance
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Ticherra acte Courvoisier Collection, Basel | |
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Genus: | Ticherra de Nicéville, 1887
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Species: | T. acte
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Ticherra acte (Moore, 1857)
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Ticherra acte, the blue imperial, is a small butterfly found in India and South-East Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Its genus Ticherra is monotypic.
Subspecies
- Ticherra acte acte (Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia)
- Ticherra acte liviana Fruhstorfer, 1912 (southern Burma, Peninsular Malaya, Thailand, Sumatra)
- Ticherra acte staudingeri (Druce, 1895) (Borneo)
- Ticherra acte retracta Cowan, 1967 (Hainan)
See also
References
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
- Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
- Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
- Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.