''Thermozephyrus ataxus'', the wonderful hairstreak,
[ Retrieved April 23, 2018.] is a small
butterfly
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 ...
found from
India
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to
Japan that belongs to the
lycaenids or blues family.
Taxonomy
The butterfly was previously classified as ''Thecla ataxus''
Doubleday.
It is also presently classified as ''Chrysozephyrus ataxus''.
[Markku Savela's website on Lepidopter]
Page on genus ''Chrysozephyrus''.
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Range
The species occurs in Murree
Murree (Punjabi, Urdu: مری) is a mountain resort city, located in the Galyat region of the Pir Panjal Range, within the Muree District of Punjab, Pakistan. It forms the outskirts of the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and is abou ...
(Pakistan
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), and in India
India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...
from Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to:
* Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent
* Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory
* Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administere ...
to Kumaon Kumaon or Kumaun may refer to:
* Kumaon division, a region in Uttarakhand, India
* Kumaon Kingdom, a former country in Uttarakhand, India
* Kumaon, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
* , a ship of the Royal Indian Navy during WWII
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and in the Naga Hills.Himalaya
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Subspecies
*''Thermozephyrus ataxus ataxus'' (north-western India to Upper Burma)
*''Thermozephyrus ataxus kirishimaensis'' (Okajima, 1922) (Japan)
*''Thermozephyrus ataxus lingi'' (Okano & Okura, 1969) (Taiwan)
*''Thermozephyrus ataxus motohiroi'' (Fujioka, 2001)
*''Thermozephyrus ataxus yakushimaensis'' (Yazaki, 1924) (Japan)
*''Thermozephyrus ataxus tsukiyamai'' (Fujioka, 2001) (Myanmar)
*''Thermozephyrus ataxus zulla'' (Tytler, 1915) (Assam, western China)
Cited references
See also
*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 ...
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Lycaenidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
This list is based on Evans (1932) and includes 318 species bel ...
References
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Theclini
Monotypic butterfly genera
Lycaenidae genera
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