''Cheritra'' is the genus of "typical" imperials,
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...
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 butterfly ...
.
The species of this genus are found in the
Indomalayan realm.
Species
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Cheritra aenea
''Cheritra'' is the genus of "typical" imperials, butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Species
*'' Cheritra aenea'' Semper, 1890 Philippines
*'' Cheritra aenigma'' Cowan, 1967 Sumat ...
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Semper, 1890 Philippines
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Cheritra aenigma
''Cheritra'' is the genus of "typical" imperials, butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Species
*''Cheritra aenea'' Semper, 1890 Philippines
*'' Cheritra aenigma'' Cowan, 1967 Sumatr ...
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Cowan, 1967 Sumatra
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Cheritra freja
''Cheritra freja'', the common imperial, is a small butterfly found in India, Myanmar, Malaysia and Sri Lanka that belongs to the gossamer-winged butterflies family (Lycaenidae).
Subspecies
The subspecies of ''Cheritra freja'' are-
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(Fabricius, 1793) – common imperial
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Cheritra orpheus
''Cheritra orpheus'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1862. It is found in the Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the P ...
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(C. & R. Felder, 1862)
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Cheritra pallida
''Cheritra'' is the genus of "typical" imperials, butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.
The species of this genus are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Species
*'' Cheritra aenea'' Semper, 1890 Philippines
*'' Cheritra aenigma'' Cowan, 1967 Sumat ...
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(Druce, 1873) Borneo
External links
''Cheritra''at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Images representing ''Cheritra'' 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 ...
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Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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