Polycaena
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| Polycaena | |
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| Polycaena matuta (figure 16) and Polycaena lama (13 male, 15 female) in John Henry Leech's Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Riodinidae |
| Tribe: | Nemeobiini |
| Genus: | Polycaena Staudinger, 1886[1][2] |
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Polycaena is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Nemeobiinae within the family Riodinidae. The genus was erected by Otto Staudinger in 1886. The species are found in the eastern Palearctic, mainly in the Himalayas.[3]
Cladogram from the Catalogue of Life:
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