The Arhopalini are a rather small
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
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
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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 ...
.
Genera
As not all
Theclinae
The subfamily Theclinae is a group of butterflies, often referred to as hairstreaks, with some species instead known as elfins or by other names. The group is part of the family Lycaenidae, the "gossamer-winged butterflies". There are many tropi ...
have been assigned to tribes, the following list of genera is preliminary:
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Apporasa
''Apporasa'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, the blues. The genus is monotypic containing only ''Apporasa atkinsoni'', the crenulate oakblue. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Description
The following description is t ...
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Arhopala
''Arhopala'' is a very large genus of gossamer-winged butterflies (Lycaenidae). They are the type genus of the tribe Arhopalini. In the relatively wide circumscription used here, it contains over 200 species collectively known as oakblues. They o ...
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Flos
''Flos'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are commonly known as plushblues and are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Species
*'' Flos diardi'' (Hewitson, 1862) - shining plushblue, bifid plushblue
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Keraunogramma''
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Mahathala''
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Mota Mota, MOTA or variations thereof may refer to:
Geography
* Mota (island), Vanuatu
* Mota, Ethiopia, a town
* Mota, Gujarat, India, a town
* Mota, Ljutomer, Slovenia, a village
Music
* ''M.O.T.A.'' (album), a 2005 album by Cultura Profética
* "M ...
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Ogyris
''Ogyris'' is an Australasian realm, Australasian genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
Species
*''Ogyris abrota'' Westwood, 1851
*''Ogyris aenone'' Waterhouse, 1902
*''Ogyris amaryllis'' Hewitson, 1862
*''Ogyris aurantiaca'' Rebel, 191 ...
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Semanga''
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Surendra
Surendra is an Indian masculine given name. Notable people with this name include:
* Surendra (actor/singer)
* Surendra Bhave
* Surendra Chaturvedi
* Surendra Dubey
* Surendra Gambhir
* Surendra Hiranandani
* Surendra Jain
* Surendra Jha 'Sum ...
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Thaduka''
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Zinaspa''
References
Theclinae
Butterfly tribes
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