''Lucia'' 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

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. It is

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

, containing only the species ''Lucia limbaria'', the small copper, of

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

."''Lucia'' Swainson, 1833"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

References

Luciini Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by William John Swainson Monotypic butterfly genera {{Theclinae-stub