Indomalayan
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
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 ...
.
Species
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Callenya kaguya
''Callenya'' is an Indomalayan genus of butterflies 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 cal ...
'' Eliot & Kawazoé, 1983 Palawan
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Callenya lenya
''Callenya lenya'', the long-winged hedge blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
Distribution
''Callenya lenya'' is found in southern Burma, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. In Kinabalu Park in Sabah, it is recorded from Kampung ...
'' (Evans, 1932)
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Callenya melaena
''Callenya melaena'', the metallic hedge blue, Retrieved April 19, 2018. is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
Description
Male upperside: deep brown. Forewing: with the basal half dark blue, dull in ...