''Thecla'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

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 ...

, described by

Johan Christian Fabricius Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is cons ...

in 1807, belonging to 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 species are found in the

Palaearctic 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 ...

Species

Several, including: * ''

Thecla betulae The brown hairstreak (''Thecla betulae'') is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The range includes most of the Palaearctic. Description The following description of this butterfly was written by Adalbert Seitz in 1909: ''Z. betulae'' L. B ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - brown hairstreak * '' Thecla betulina'' Staudinger, 1887 * '' Thecla ohyai'' Fujioka, 1994 China, Yunnan, Li-Kiang. * '' Thecla chalybeia'', De Nicéville 1892 * '' Thecla hemon'' (Cramer, 1775) formerly in the, then.

wastebasket taxon Wastebasket taxon (also called a wastebin taxon, dustbin taxon or catch-all taxon) is a term used by some taxonomists to refer to a taxon that has the sole purpose of classifying organisms that do not fit anywhere else. They are typically defined ...

"''Thecla''" sensu lato Thecla hemon MHNT

= '' Theritas hemon'' Cramer, 1775 * '' Thecla leechii'', De Nicéville 1892 * '' Thecla letha'', (Watson, 1896) * '' Thecla pavo'', (De Nicéville, 1887) * '' Thecla ziha'', (Hewitson, 1865)

References

Taxon profile
at BioLib
"''Thecla'' Fabricius, 1807"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

External links

Images representing ''Thecla''
at

Consortium for the Barcode of Life The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of ...

Theclini Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius {{Theclinae-stub