Thereus lomalarga

Species of butterfly

Thereus lomalarga

Male
Female
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Lycaenidae
Genus:  | Thereus
Species:  |

T. lomalarga

Binomial name
Thereus lomalarga

Robbins, Heredia & Busby, 2015

Thereus lomalarga is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found from Costa Rica to the western slope of the Andes in Ecuador. It occurs in the great variety of forested habitats.

The larvae feed on Oryctanthus alveolatus.

## Etymology[edit]

The species is named for Loma Larga, a housing development on the outskirts of Parque Nacional Natural Farallones de Cali.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Male secondary sexual structures and the systematics of the Thereus oppia species group (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Eumaeini) This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q21311835
* Wikispecies: Thereus lomalarga
* GBIF: 8858306
* iNaturalist: 1075125
* ZooBank: 39501F5C-16C9-437D-874F-74722CEF1AB6

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