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Tarucus
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Tarucus is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as blue Pierrots or simply Pierrots. The latter name is often used for the closely related genus Castalius. The delimitation of Castalius versus Tarucus is not yet fully resolved, with some species, such as the dark Pierrot (T. ananda), having been moved between the two genera repeatedly. It may even be that they are eventually regarded as synonymous, and in that case the older name Castalius would supersede Tarucus by the Principle of Priority.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 87
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Collections
- YPM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Turkey, Somalia, Peru, South Africa, Madagascar
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Polyommatini
- Image
- Rounded Pierrot (Tarucus nara)- Female on Zizyphus species in Hyderabad, AP W IMG 7964.jpg
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- Tarucus
- taxon name
- Tarucus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Tarucus
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Species
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Tarucus is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as blue Pierrots or simply Pierrots. The latter name is often used for the closely related genus Castalius. The delimitation of Castalius versus Tarucus is not yet fully resolved, with some species, such as the dark Pierrot (T. ananda), having been moved between the two genera repeatedly. It may even be that they are eventually regarded as synonymous, and in that case the older name Castalius would supersede Tarucus by the Principle of Priority.
Several species formerly in Tarucus were moved to Leptotes, another closely related lineage (though not quite as close as Castalius).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tarucus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.