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Also known as Dingy Line Blue

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

Species

GENUS

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

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Specimen records
4
Family
Lycaenidae
Collections
NHMUK
Recorded in
Sierra Leone, Kenya

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Polyommatini
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Commons category
Petrelaea
taxon name
Petrelaea
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Petrelaea
taxonomic type
Petrelaea dana
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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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