''Stugeta'' 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 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 genus was erected by

Hamilton Herbert Druce Hamilton Herbert Charles James Druce (26 October 1866 – 21 June 1922) was an 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 Dr ...

in 1891.

Species

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Stugeta bowkeri ''Stugeta bowkeri'', the Bowker's sapphire, Bowker's marbled sapphire or Bowker's tailed blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in most of southern Africa. The wingspan is 26–32 mm for males and 29–41 mm for fe ...

'' (Trimen, 1864) *'' Stugeta carpenteri'' Stempffer, 1946 *'' Stugeta marmoreus'' (Butler, 1866) *'' Stugeta mimetica'' Aurivillius, 1916 *'' Stugeta occidentalis'' Stempffer & Bennett, 1958 *'' Stugeta somalina'' Stempffer, 1946 *'' Stugeta subinfuscata'' Grünberg, 1910

References

Iolaini Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Hamilton Herbert Druce {{Theclinae-stub