''Nabokovia'' is a
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
butterflies, named by
Arthur Francis Hemming in honour of
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (russian: link=no, Владимир Владимирович Набоков ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Bor ...
, who extensively studied the
Polyommatinae
Polyommatinae, the blues, are a diverse subfamily of gossamer-winged butterflies (family Lycaenidae).
This subfamily was long used to assign taxa
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more ...
subfamily.
butterflies
/ref>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 ...
are recognized:[
*'' Nabokovia ada'' Bálint & Johnson, 1994
*'' Nabokovia cuzquenha'' Bálint & Lamas, ]997
Year 997 (Roman numerals, CMXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Japan
* 1 February: Empress Teishi gives birth to Princess Shushi - she is the first ...
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*'' Nabokovia faga'' (Dognin 1895)
Notes
External links
Images representing ''Nabokovia'' at Butterflies of America
Polyommatini
Vladimir Nabokov
Lycaenidae of South America
Lycaenidae genera
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