''Loxerebia'' is a butterfly genus of the subfamily
Satyrinae
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. The genus is confined to
China
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(including
Tibet
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),
Mongolia
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,
Burma
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,
Thailand
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and
Laos
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. Most species are
endemic
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to China.
Species
* ''
Loxerebia albipuncta''
(Leech, 1890)
* ''
Loxerebia bocki''
(Oberthür, 1893)
* ''
Loxerebia carola''
(Oberthür, 1893)
* ''
Loxerebia delavayi''
(Oberthür, 1891)
* ''
Loxerebia innupta''
(South, 1913)
* ''
Loxerebia loczyi''
(Frivaldsky, 1885)
* ''
Loxerebia martyr''
Watkins, 1927
* ''
Loxerebia megalops''
(Alphéraky, 1895)
* ''
Loxerebia narasingha''
(Moore, 1857)
* ''
Loxerebia phyllis''
(Leech, 1891)
* ''
Loxerebia pieli''
Huang & Wu, 2003
* ''
Loxerebia pratorum''
(Oberthür, 1886)
* ''
Loxerebia ruricola''
(Leech, 1890)
* ''
Loxerebia rurigena''
(Leech, 1890)
* ''
Loxerebia saxicola''
(Oberthür, 1876)
* ''
Loxerebia seitzi''
(Goltz, 1939)
* ''
Loxerebia sylvicola
''Loxerebia'' is a butterfly genus of the subfamily Satyrinae. The genus is confined to China (including Tibet), Mongolia, Burma, Thailand and Laos. Most species are endemic to China.
Species
* '' Loxerebia albipuncta'' (Leech, 1890)
* '' Loxere ...
''
(Oberthür, 1886)
* ''
Loxerebia yphthimoides''
(Oberthür, 1891)
* ''
Loxerebia yukikoae''
Sugiyama, 1992
References
"''Loxerebia'' Watkins, 1925"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
External links
Images representing ''Loxerebia''at
Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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Satyrini
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Charles James Watkins