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Taraka (butterfly)

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Taraka
Copulating pair of Taraka haimada.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Miletinae
Tribe: Spalgini
Genus: Taraka
Doherty, 1889 [1]

Taraka is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae that inhabit the East Asian Palearctic and Indomalayan realms. It includes the species Taraka hamada, Taraka mahanetra de Nicéville, (Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Thailand) and Taraka shiloi Tamai & Guo, 2001 Sichuan.

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  1. ^ Doherty, 1889 Notes on Assam butterflies J. asiat. Soc. Bengal. 58 Pt.II (1) : 118-134


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