''Simiskina'' 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 ...
. The genus was erected by
William Lucas Distant
William Lucas Distant (12 November 1845 Rotherhithe – 4 February 1922 Wanstead) was an English entomologist.
Biography Early years
Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of whaling captain Alexander Distantspecies:B.R. Subba Rao, Rao, B.R ...
in 1886. The 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 ...
.
Species
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Simiskina pasira''
(Moulton, 1911)
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Simiskina pavonica''
de Nicéville, 1895
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Simiskina pediada''
(Hewitson, 1877)
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Simiskina phalena''
(Hewitson, 1874)
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Simiskina phalia''
(Hewitson, 1874)
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Simiskina pharyge''
(Hewitson, 1874)
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Simiskina pheretia''
(Hewitson, 1874)
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Simiskina philura''
(H. H. Druce, 1895)
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Simiskina proxima''
de Nicéville, 1895
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Simiskina sibatika''
Eliot, 1969
References
*, 1940. A revision of the Malayan species of Poritiinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London''. 90: 337–350, 1 pl., 21 figs.
*, 1886. Descriptions of new species and a new genus of Rhopalocera from the Malay Peninsula. ''Entomologist'' 19''
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*, 1969. More revisional notes on oriental butterflies. ''Entomologist'' 102: 269–278, 8 figs., 1 pl.
*, 1992. In Corbet & Pendlebury, ''The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula''. 4th Edn. Kuala Lumpur.
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*, 1991. ''Butterflies of Borneo'' Vol. 2, No. 1. Lycaenidae. Tobishima Corporation, Tokyo.
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*, 1995. Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'' Suppl. 14: 7–118.
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Poritiinae
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by William Lucas Distant
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