Acupicta, or Catapaecilma, is a genus of

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in the family

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. The species are found in the

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and

Australasian Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia). The term is used in a number of different contexts, ...

realms."''Acupicta'' Eliot, 1973"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

Species

* '' Acupicta bubases'' (Hewitson, 1875) * '' Acupicta delicatum'' (de Nicéville, 1887) * '' Acupicta flemingi'' Eliot, 1975 * '' Acupicta inopinatum'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1998 * '' Acupicta jeffreyi'' Müller, 2004 * '' Acupicta meeki'' Eliot, 1974 * '' Acupicta trajana'' Okubo, 2007

References

Catapaecilmatini Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by John Nevill Eliot {{Theclinae-stub