''Pseudotajuria'' 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 ...

genus 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 ...

. 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 "unisp ...

, containing only the species ''Pseudotajuria donatana''."''Pseudotajuria'' Eliot, 1973"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' It is found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...

(Burma - Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Banguey, Nias)

References

*Eliot, J.N. 1973: The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. ''Bulletin of the British Museum'' (Natural History), entomology, 28: 371-505

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* * Remelanini Monotypic butterfly genera Taxa named by John Nevill Eliot Lycaenidae genera {{Lycaenidae-stub