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Taraka (butterfly)

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Taraka
Copulating pair of Taraka haimada.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Lycaenidae
Tribe:
Tarakini

Eliot, 1973
Genus:
Taraka

Doherty, 1889 [1]

Taraka is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae that inhabit the East Asian Palearctic ecozone and Indomalaya ecozone. It includes the species Taraka hamada, Taraka mahanetra de Nicéville, (Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Thailand) and Taraka shiloi Tamai & Guo, 2001 Sichuan.

References

  1. ^ Doherty, 1889 Notes on Assam butterflies J. asiat. Soc. Bengal. 58 Pt.II (1) : 118-134
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