''Monodontides cara'' is a

butterfly 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 ...

of 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 ...

. It is found on

Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...

References

*, 1898. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan, Austro-Malayan and Australian Regions. ''The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 12: 131–160, 4 pls. * , 1983. ''Blue Butterflies of the ''Lycaenopsis'' Group'': 1–309, 6 pls. London. *, 1917. Revision der Lycaenidengattung ''Lycaenopsis. Arch. Naturgesch''. 82 (A) (1) (1916): 1-42, 2 pls. *, 1922. In Seitz, A., ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 9, Gattungen ''Megisba, Lycaenopsis, Pithecops''. pp. 857–881. Stuttgart. Monodontides Butterflies described in 1898 Butterflies of Indonesia Taxa named by Lionel de Nicéville {{Polyommatini-stub