''Stugeta'' is an
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
genus of
butterflies
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 t ...
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 ...
. The genus was erected by
Hamilton Herbert Druce
Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce (1869 – 21 June 1922) was an England, English entomologist who specialised in Lycaenidae and to a lesser extent Hesperiidae. He is not to be confused with his father, the English entomologist Herbert Druce, ...
in 1891.
Species
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Stugeta bowkeri''
(Trimen, 1864)
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Stugeta carpenteri''
Stempffer, 1946
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Stugeta marmoreus''
(Butler, 1866)
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Stugeta mimetica''
Aurivillius, 1916
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Stugeta occidentalis''
Stempffer & Bennett, 1958
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Stugeta somalina''
Stempffer, 1946
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Stugeta subinfuscata''
Grünberg, 1910
References
Iolaini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Hamilton Herbert Druce
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