Acupicta, or Catapaecilma, is a genus of
butterflies
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in the family
Lycaenidae
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. The species are found in the
Indomalayan
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Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
and
Australasian
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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
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