''Durbaniopsis'' 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
single species is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the
Afrotropics.
Species
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Durbaniopsis saga
''Durbaniopsis saga'', the Boland, Western Cape, Boland rocksitter, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Africa in a wide area in the inland of the Western Cape and Northern Cape mountains, from the Nieuwoudtville mountai ...
''
(Trimen, 1883)
External links
''Durbaniopsis''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and some other life forms''
Poritiinae
Lycaenidae genera
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