''Turanana'' is a
genus
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of
butterflies
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in the family
Lycaenidae
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. It is found in the east
Palearctic
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Th ...
from
Greece
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to
Central Asia
Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...
.
Species
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Turanana anisophthalma''
(Kollar, 849
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Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – Battle of Ostia: A Saracen Arab fleet from Sardinia sets sail towards Rome. In response, Pope Leo IV ...
Kopet-Dagh Mountains, West Pamirs, Iran (Elburs Mountains, Zagros Mountains), Afghanistan (Hindu Kush)
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Turanana chitrali''
Charmeux & Pagès, 2004 Pakistan (Zani Pass)
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Turanana cytis''
(Christoph, 1877)
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Turanana dushak''
Dubatolov, 1989 Kopet-Dagh Mountains
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Turanana endymion''
(Freyer, 1850)
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Turanana grumi''
Forster, 1937 Pamirs, Northeast Hindu Kush
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Turanana jurileontyi''
Shchetkin, 1986 Turkenstansky Mountains
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Turanana kugitangi''
Zhdanko, 1984 Armenia (mountains), Kopet-Dagh Mountains, South Ghissar
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Turanana laspura''
(Evans, 1932) Turkestansky Mountains, Ghissar, Darvaz, Pamirs, Alai, NorthWest Himalaya
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Turanana mystica''
Morgun & Tikhonov, 2010 Daghestan
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Turanana panaegides''
(Staudinger, 1886) Ghissar, West Tian-Shan, Inner Tian-Shan, Alai, Pamirs, Hindu Kush
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Turanana taygetica''
(Rebel, 1902)
References
* , 2011: Deux nouveaux Polyommatini du Tadjikistan : ''Turanana laspura panjensis'' ssp. nova et ''Agriades pheretiades ishkashimensis'' ssp. nova (Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae). ''Les Lépidoptéristes de France'' 20 (48): 7–13.
* , 2004: A new species of the genus ''Turanana'' from Pakistan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Phegea'' 32 (2): 63–69
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* , 2005: Revision of the ''Turanana endymion'' species-group (Lycaenidae). ''Nota Lepidopterologica'' 27 (4): 251–272. Full Article
* , 2006: Additional revisionary actions and corrections in the ''Turanana endymion'' species-group (Lycaenidae). ''Nota Lepidopterologica'' 29 (1/2): 17–25. Full Article
* , 2010: ''Turanana mystica'' spec. nov., a new lycaenid from the Great Caucasus. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Atalanta'' 41 (3/4): 331–334.
External links
images representing ''Turanana'' at
Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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Polyommatini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by George Thomas Bethune-Baker
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