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Eumedonia

Eumedonia is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae first described by Walter Forster in 1938.

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Eumedonia
Eumedonia eumedon
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Eumedonia
Forster, 1938

Eumedonia is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae first described by Walter Forster in 1938.

Species

Listed alphabetically:1

  • Eumedonia annulata (Elwes, 1906) Tibet
  • Eumedonia astorica (Evans, 1925) Northwest Himalayas
  • Eumedonia eumedon (Esper, 1780) – geranium argus
  • Eumedonia kogistana (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888) Darvaz, Pamirs
  • Eumedonia lamasem (Oberthür, 1910) Tibet
  • Eumedonia persephatta (Alphéraky, 1881) ) Hindu Kush - Tian-Shan, Pamirs-Alai
  • Eumedonia privata (Staudinger, 1895) West Himalayas
References

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Eumedonia Forster, 1938". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
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