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Paralycaeides

Paralycaeides is a Neotropical genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

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Paralycaeides
Paralycaeides vapa (Staudinger, 1894) and other Lepidoptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Paralycaeides
Nabokov, 1945
Synonyms

Boliviella Balletto, 1993 1

Paralycaeides is a Neotropical genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.1

Species

  • Paralycaeides inconspicua (Draudt, 1921) Central and South Peru (high Andes)
  • Paralycaeides shade Bálint, 1993 Central Peru (high Andes)
  • Paralycaeides vapa (Staudinger, 1894) South Peru, Bolivia, Northeast Chile, Argentina, North Patagonia (high Andes)
References

References

  1. "Paralycaeides". funet.fi. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
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