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Pseudophilotes

Pseudophilotes is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

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Pseudophilotes
Pseudophilotes vicrama
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Pseudophilotes
Beuret, 1958
Synonyms

Rubrapterus Korshunov, 1990

Pseudophilotes is a Palearctic genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

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References

  1. Benyamini, Dubi, 2000: Pseudophilotes jordanicus a new relict species of the SE. Mediterranean Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae. Linneana Belgica 17(8): 359-370

Valentina Todisco, Andrea Grill, Konrad Fiedler, Brigitte Gottsberger, Vlad Dincă, Raluca Vodă, Vladimir Lukhtanov and Harald Letsch (2018). Molecular phylogeny of the Palaearctic butterfly genus Pseudophilotes (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) with focus on the Sardinian endemic P. barbagiae. BMC Zoology 3:4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-018-0032-7

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