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''Maneca'' is a
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 ...
genus 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 ...
. It is
monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...
, containing only the species ''Maneca bhotea'', the slate royal."''Maneca'' de Nicéville in Marshall & de Nicéville, 1890"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' This is found in Assam and Yunnan (''M. b. unnanensis'' Yoshino, 2001 sic)


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Iolaini Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Lionel de Nicéville Monotypic butterfly genera {{Lycaenidae-stub