''Tajuria mizunumai'' 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 ...

of 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 ...

. It is found only on

Mindanao Mindanao ( ) ( Jawi: مينداناو) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of ...

in the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. It was originally listed as a

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

of ''

Tajuria dominus ''Tajuria dominus'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1895. It is found in the Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of So ...

'', but was changed

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

status as ''Tajuria mizunumai'' by Colin G. Treadaway in 1995 and by H. Hayashiin 2017.

References

* Hayashi, Hisakazu, 1978: New Subspecies of ''Narathura bazalus'' and ''Tajuria dominus'' from Mindanao. ''Tyô to Ga''. 29(2): 114-11

* Treadaway, Colin G., 1995: Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', Suppl. 14: 7-118. * Hayashi, Hisakazu, 2017: Nomenclatural status of ''Tajuria mizunumai'' (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Mindanao Island in the Philippines. ''Butterflies''. 76: 22-25. Lepidoptera of the Philippines Butterflies described in 1978 Tajuria {{Theclinae-stub