''Kirinia'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
butterflies of the family
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
found in Europe and Asia.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
''Kirinia''
Tree of Life Web Project
* ''Kirinia climene
''Kirinia climene'', the Iranian Argus, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1783. It is distributed in Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Turkey, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Syria, ...
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* ''Kirinia epaminondas
''Kirinia epaminondas'' is a Palaearctic butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1887.
Distribution
''Kirinia epaminondas'' occurs in the Amur Oblast and Primorsky Krai of the Russian Far East, as well as in Ea ...
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* '' Kirinia epimenides''
* ''Kirinia eversmanni
''Kirinia'' is a genus of butterflies of the family Nymphalidae found in Europe and Asia.
Species
Listed alphabetically:''Kirinia''
...
'' (Eversmann, 1847) Kazakhstan, Ghissaro-Darvaz, Pamiro-Alai
* '' Kirinia roxelana''
References
External links
Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic"''Kirinia'' Moore, 1893"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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