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Chlorostrymon

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Chlorostrymon

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Chlorostrymon is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical realms.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyLycaenidae

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Specimen records
3
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6
Family
Lycaenidae
Collections
NHMUK
Recorded in
Jamaica

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Lycaenidae
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taxon name
Chlorostrymon
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Chlorostrymon
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Encyclopedic overview

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Chlorostrymon is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are found in the Nearctic and Neotropical realms.

==Species== Chlorostrymon simaethis (Drury, 1773) – silver-banded hairstreak Chlorostrymon telea (Hewitson, 1868) – telea hairstreak Chlorostrymon maesites (Herrich-Schäffer, 1864) – amethyst hairstreak Chlorostrymon clenchi Comstock & Huntington, 1943 Dominica, Guadeloupe Chlorostrymon kuscheli (Ureta, 1949) Chlorostrymon orbis Johnson & Smith, 1993 Jamaica

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