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Thereus brocki

Thereus brocki is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It found from eastern Colombia to eastern Peru. The habitat consists of wet forests up to about 1,000 meters elevation.

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Thereus brocki
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Thereus
Species:
T. brocki
Binomial name
Thereus brocki
Robbins, Heredia & Busby, 2015

Thereus brocki is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It found from eastern Colombia to eastern Peru. The habitat consists of wet forests up to about 1,000 meters elevation.

Etymology

The species is named for James Brock of Tucson, Arizona who collected the holotype.1

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