Petrelaea

Short description: Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Petrelaea

Petrelaea dana Fig.15
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Lycaenidae
Subfamily:  | Polyommatinae
Tribe:  | Polyommatini
Genus:  | Petrelaea
Toxopeus, 1929

Petrelaea is a small genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Australasian and Indomalayan realms.

## Species

* Petrelaea dana (de Nicéville, 1884)
* Petrelaea tombugensis (Röber, 1886) New Guinea, Celebes, Thursday Island, Sulawesi, Sula, Solomon Islands, North Australia, Ogasawara Island.

## External links

* Funet Taxonomy Distribution
* Images representing Petrelaea at Bold

Wikidata ☰ Q1766140 entry

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