''Leptomyrina'' is a
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 ...
genus 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 of this genus are found in the
Afrotropical realm
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
.
Species
*
Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''Leptomyrina''
Butler, 1898
**''
Leptomyrina boschi''
Strand, 1911
**''
Leptomyrina hirundo''
(Wallengren, 1857)
**''
Leptomyrina makala''
Bethune-Baker, 1908
**''
Leptomyrina phidias''
(Fabricius, 1793)
**''
Leptomyrina sudanica''
Stempffer, 1964
*Subgenus ''Gonatomyrina''
Aurivillius, 1924
**''
Leptomyrina gorgias''
(Stoll, 790
__NOTOC__
Year 790 ( DCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 790 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...
**''
Leptomyrina handmani''
Gifford, 1965
**''
Leptomyrina henningi''
Dickson, 1976
**''
Leptomyrina lara''
(Linnaeus, 1764)
External links
''Leptomyrina''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Hypolycaenini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
{{Theclinae-stub