Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bi ...
genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly ...
*''Chalybs janias">819]"">"''Chalybs'' Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Species
*''Chalybs janias'' (Cramer, [1779]) Mexico to Venezuela, Colombia, Surinam, French Guiana
*''Chalybs chloris'' (Hewitson, 1877) Brazil
*''Chalybs hassan'' (Stoll, [1790]) Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Surinam, French Guiana
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Chalybs lineata
Chalybs is a Neotropical genus of butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloure ...
Consortium for the Barcode of Life
The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) was an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification. CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of ...