''Chazara'' is a

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Satyrinae The Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the browns, are a subfamily of the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies). They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known divers ...

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(Nymphalidae). The most well-known is the hermit butterfly ('' C. briseis''). ''C. briseis'' can be found as far west as Morocco and as far eastward as Mongolia. They inhabit the

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Selected species

* '' Chazara bischoffii'' (Herrich-Schäffer,

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– orange hermit * ''

Chazara briseis ''Chazara briseis'', the hermit, is a butterfly species belonging to the Family (biology), family Nymphalidae. It can be found in North Africa, southern Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia through Afghanistan, and north-wes ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1764) – hermit butterfly * '' Chazara egina'' Staudinger,

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/small> – Anatolian witch * '' Chazara eitschbergeri'' Lukhtanov, 1999 * '' Chazara enervata'' (Alpheraky, 1881) * '' Chazara heydenreichi'' (Lederer, 1853) * '' Chazara kaufmanni'' (Erschoff, 1874) * '' Chazara persephone'' (Hübner,

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– dark rockbrown * '' Chazara prieuri'' (Pierret, 1837) – southern hermit * '' Chazara rangontavica'' Shchetkin, 1981 * '' Chazara staudingeri'' (Bang-Haas, 1882)

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Satyrinae of the Western Palearctic
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chazara (Genus) Satyrini Butterfly genera Taxa named by Frederic Moore