''Catopyrops'' is a genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), 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 range extends from
India
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to the
Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based ...
and the Solomon Islands.
Species
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Catopyrops ancyra''
(Felder, 1860) – many subspecies
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Catopyrops florinda''
(Butler, 1877)
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Catopyrops holtra''
Parsons, 1986 New Britain
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Catopyrops keiria''
(Druce, 1891)
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Catopyrops kokopona''
(Ribbe, 1899)
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Catopyrops nebulosa''
(Druce, 1892) New Hebrides
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Catopyrops rita''
(Grose-Smith, 1895)
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Catopyrops zyx''
Parsons, 1986 Solomon Islands, New Guinea
References
Further reading
*French Wikipedia provides additional subspecies and distribution information at "Le genre
''Catopyrops''".
External links
"''Catopyrops'' Toxopeus, 1929"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Images representing ''Catopyrops'' at Bold
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus
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