Paralucia
Sign in to saveParalucia is a genus of butterflies endemic to Australia and belonging to the family Lycaenidae. The caterpillars feed on Bursaria and sometimes Pittosporum species and co-habit with ants of the genera Anonychomyrma and Notoncus.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 9 inbound references to Paralucia, and connects out to Paralucia aurifer, Animalia and insect.
It sits within the topics Luciini, Lycaenidae genera and Paralucia.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 565
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Collections
- NMV, QVMAG, AM
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Paralucia aurifer.jpg
Show 2 more facts
- taxon name
- Paralucia
- Commons category
- Paralucia
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Species
- References
- External links
Paralucia is a genus of butterflies endemic to Australia and belonging to the family Lycaenidae. The caterpillars feed on Bursaria and sometimes Pittosporum species and co-habit with ants of the genera Anonychomyrma and Notoncus.
==Species== The genus includes the following three species: Bright copper, Paralucia aurifera Fiery copper, Paralucia pyrodiscus Bathurst copper, Paralucia spinifera
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paralucia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.