''Miletus'' 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 sometimes called brownies. Its species are found in the eastern

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sib ...

and the Indomalayan realm, and some stray east of the

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. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner around 1819. ''Miletus'' is the

type genus In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. Zoological nomenclature According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...

of the subfamily

Miletinae Miletinae is a subfamily of the family Lycaenidae of butterflies, commonly called harvesters and woolly legs, and virtually unique among butterflies in having predatory larvae. Miletinae are entirely aphytophagous (do not feed on plants). The eco ...

Species

*''boisduvali''

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**'' Miletus biggsii'' (Distant, 1884) **'' Miletus boisduvali'' Moore, 1857 **'' Miletus cellarius'' (Fruhstorfer, 1913) **'' Miletus drucei'' (Semper, 1888) *''chinensis'' species group **'' Miletus bannanus'' Huang & Xue, 2004 **'' Miletus chinensis'' C. Felder, 1862 **'' Miletus croton'' (Doherty, 1889) **'' Miletus gaesa'' (de Nicéville, 1895) **'' Miletus mallus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1913) **'' Miletus nymphis'' (Fruhstorfer, 1913) *''melanion'' species group **'' Miletus bazilanus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1913) **'' Miletus melanion'' C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 *''symethus'' species group **'' Miletus ancon'' Doherty, 1889 **'' Miletus archilocus'' Fruhstorfer, 1913 **'' Miletus atimonicus'' Murayama & Okamura, 1973 **'' Miletus celinus'' Eliot, 1961 **'' Miletus gallus'' (de Nicéville, 1894) **'' Miletus gigantes'' (de Nicéville, 1894) **'' Miletus heracleion'' (Doherty, 1891) **'' Miletus leos'' (Guérin-Ménéville, 1830) **'' Miletus rosei'' Cassidy, 1995 **''

Miletus symethus ''Miletus symethus'', the great brownie, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenidae, lycaenids or blues family. The species was Species description, first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. Range It is found in the Nag ...

'' (Cramer, 777 **'' Miletus takanamii'' Eliot, 1986 *''zinckenii'' species group **'' Miletus gaetulus'' (de Nicéville, 1894) **'' Miletus gopara'' (de Nicéville, 1890) **'' Miletus valeus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1913) **'' Miletus zinckenii'' C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865

References

*Boisduval, J. B. (1836). ''In'' Roret, Suite à Buffon, ''Histoire naturelle des Insectes.'' Species général des Lépidoptères 1: xii + 690pp., 24 pls. Paris. *Cassidy, A. C. (1995)
"On the Miletini (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) of the Sulawesi Region"
''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan ''. 46: 1–12. *Cramer, P. (1775–1780). ''De Uitlandsche Kapellen ... Asia, Africa en America ...'' Amsterdam, Baalde & Utrecht, 4 vols. *Eliot, J. N. (1961)
"An analysis of the genus ''Miletus'' Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)"
''Bulletin of the Raffles Museum''. 26: 154–177, 24 figs. *Eliot, J. N. (1986). "A review of the Miletini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)". ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)''. 53 (1): 1–105. *Fruhstorfer, H. (1909–1923). In Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde''. 9. Stuttgart. *Hübner, J. (1816–1826). '' Verzeichniss bekannter Schmettlinge''. Augsberg. *Horsfield, T. (1828–1829). ''A Descriptive Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Honourable East India Company''. 144 pp., 8 pls. London.

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