Caerulea

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Caerulea
Caerulea coeligena in Charles Oberthür's Ètudes d'entomologie: Lépidoptères de Chine
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Caerulea
Forster, 1938

Caerulea is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. It is a small genus with only two species.

  • Caerulea coeligena (Oberthür, 1876) western China, central China.
  • Caerulea coelestis (Alphéraky, 1897) Tibet, western China

References

  • "Caerulea Forster, 1938" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
Wikispecies has information related to Caerulea.
  • Images representing Caerulea at Encyclopedia of Life
Taxon identifiers
Caerulea


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