Tomares (butterfly)

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Tomares
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Theclinae
Tribe: Tomarini
Genus: Tomares
Rambur, 1840
Species

8, see text.

Tomares is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. They are presently the only genus in the tribe Tomarini. As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, this is preliminary however.

[edit] Species

  • Provence Hairstreak or Cardenillo, Tomares ballus
  • Tomares callimachus
  • Tomares desinens
  • Tomares fedtschenkoi
  • Moroccan Hairstreak, Tomares mauretanicus
  • Tomares nogelii
  • Tomares romanovi
  • Tomares telemachus