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''Oboronia'' is an
Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
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 ...
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 ...
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Species

*'' Oboronia albicosta'' (Gaede, 1916) *'' Oboronia bueronica'' Karsch, 1895 *'' Oboronia guessfeldti'' (Dewitz, 1879) *'' Oboronia liberiana'' Stempffer, 1950 *''
Oboronia ornata ''Oboronia ornata'', the untailed ginger white, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democrati ...
'' (Mabille, 1890) *'' Oboronia pseudopunctatus'' (Strand, 1912) *'' Oboronia punctatus'' (Dewitz, 1879)


References


Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 74
Polyommatini Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch {{Polyommatini-stub