''Niphanda'' is a

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butterflies 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 ...

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 ...

and only member of the Niphandini

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. The members (species) of this genus are found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

and the

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-Sibe ...

. The genus was erected by

Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Mo ...

in 1875.

Species

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Niphanda asialis ''Niphanda asialis'' or White-banded Pierrot is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1895. It is found in the Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It ex ...

'' (de Nicéville, 1895) India to Peninsular Malaya, South Yunnan, Sumatra, Java *''

Niphanda cymbia ''Niphanda cymbia'', the pointed Pierrot, is a small butterfly found in northern India (Sikkim to Assam), Burma and northern Borneo (''N. c. reter'' Druce, 1895) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family. Description Male upperside: violet ...

'' de Nicéville,

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Niphanda fusca ''Niphanda fusca'' is a parasitic butterfly primarily found in East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea. It is a "cuckoo-type" parasite of the ant '' Camponotus japonicus''. It utilizes chemical mimicry to trick the host worker ants into ad ...

'' (Bremer & Grey, 1853) Amur, Ussuri, Transbaikalia, NorthEast China, Japan *'' Niphanda stubbsi'' Howarth, 1956 Peninsular Malaya. *'' Niphanda tessellata'' Moore,

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/small> Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sundaland, Philippines *'' Niphanda anthenoides'' Okubo, 2007 Philippines (Mindanao)

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