Petrelaea

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Petrelaea
Petrelaea dana Fig.15
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Petrelaea
Toxopeus, 1929

Petrelaea is a small genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Australasian and Indomalayan realms.

Species

  • Petrelaea dana (de Nicéville, 1884)
  • Petrelaea tombugensis (Röber, 1886) New Guinea, Celebes, Thursday Island, Sulawesi, Sula, Solomon Islands, North Australia, Ogasawara Island.
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Taxon identifiers
Petrelaea


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