''Paiwarria'' 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 species of this genus are found in the
Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...
.
Species
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Paiwarria antinous''
(C. & R. Felder, 865
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Events
By place Europe
* King Louis the German divides the East Frankish Kingdom among his three sons. Carloman receives Bavaria (with more l ...
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Paiwarria aphaca''
(Hewitson, 1867)
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Paiwarria chuchuvia''
Hall & Willmott, 2005
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Paiwarria episcopalis''
(Fassl, 1912)
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Paiwarria telemus''
(Cramer, 775
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Paiwarria umbratus''
(Geyer, 1837)
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Paiwarria venulius''
(Cramer, 779
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Year 779 ( DCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 779 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europ ...
External links
"''Paiwarria'' Kaye, 1904"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Eumaeini
Lycaenidae of South America
Lycaenidae genera
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