''Rachana'' is a genus of
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 ...
.
Species
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Rachana australis''
(Schroeder & Treadaway, 1990)
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Rachana circumdata''
(Schroeder, Treadaway & Hayashi, 1981)
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Rachana jalindra''
(Horsfield, 1829)
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Rachana mariaba''
(Hewitson, 1869)
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Rachana mioae''
(Hayashi, 1978)
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Rachana plateni''
(Semper, 1890)
References
* , 2006: A further contribution to the Lepidoptera fauna of Balambangan Island (Malaysia, Sabah) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae, Pieridae). ''Fuatao'' 51: 1-7.
* , 1990: Zur kenntnis philippinischer Lycaenidae, 7 (Lepidoptera). ''Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 100 (?): 404-407.
* , 1978: Lycaenid butterflies from Mindanao, with the descriptions of new genus, new species and new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Tyô to Ga''. 29(3): 164-168
* , 1981: Zur Kenntnis philippinischer Lycaenidae(Lep.). ''Ent. Z.''. 24: 265-269.
* , 1978: ''In'' Corbet, A. S. & Pendlebury, H. M., ''The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula'', edn 3. Kuala Lumpur.
* , 2012: Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', Suppl. 20: 1-64.
Iolaini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by John Nevill Eliot
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