Tajuria Mizunumai
''Tajuria mizunumai'' is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found only on Mindanao in the Philippines. It was originally listed as a subspecies of ''Tajuria dominus'', but was changed species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ... status as ''Tajuria mizunumai'' by Colin G. Treadaway in 1995 and by H. Hayashiin 2017. References * Hayashi, Hisakazu, 1978: New Subspecies of ''Narathura bazalus'' and ''Tajuria dominus'' from Mindanao. ''Tyô to Ga''. 29(2): 114-11* Treadaway, Colin G., 1995: Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', Suppl. 14: 7-118. * Hayashi, Hisakazu, 2017: Nomenclatural status of ''Tajuria mizunumai'' (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Mindanao Island in t ...
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Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily (zoology), superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo Holometabolism, complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs o ...
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