Acupicta, or Catapaecilma, is a genus of
butterflies
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 ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfl ...
. The species are found in the
Indomalayan and
Australasian
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realms.
"''Acupicta'' Eliot, 1973"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Species
* '' Acupicta bubases'' (Hewitson, 1875)
* ''