Ops melastigma
| Branded royal | |
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| Ops melastigma North India | |
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| Ops melastigma From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Ops |
| Species: | O. melastigma |
| Binomial name | |
| Ops melastigma (de Nicéville, 1887)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tajuria melastigma de Nicéville | |
Ops melastigma, the branded royal, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm (in India, Assam, Burma, Thailand).[2] [3]
References
- ↑ de Nicéville, 1887 Descriptions of some new or little-known Butterflies from India, with some Notes on the seasonal Dimorphism obtaining in the Genus Melanitis Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1887 (3) : 448-467, pl. 39-40
- ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
- ↑ de Nicéville, L., 1890. The butterflies of India, Burmah & Ceylon. 3. Calcutta, xi + 503 pp. Text, Pls.
External links
- Tajuria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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