Tomares (butterfly)
| Tomares | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Theclinae |
| Tribe: | Tomarini |
| Genus: | Tomares Rambur, 1840 |
| Species | |
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Tomares is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. They are presently the only genus in the tribe Tomarini. As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, this is preliminary however.The members (species) are found in the Palearctic.
Species
- Provence Hairstreak or Cardenillo, Tomares ballus Fabricius, 1787
- Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848) Iran, Iraq and Caucasus.
- Tomares desinens Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1980 Azerbaijan
- Tomares fedtschenkoi (Erschoff, 1874) Afghanistan, North Pakistan
- Moroccan Hairstreak, Tomares mauretanicus (Lucas, 1849)
- Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) Roumania, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine
- Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882) Armenia, Turkey, Iran
- Tomares telemachus Zhdanko, 2000 Kopet-Dagh
Further reading
Tomares "Le genre Tomares" provides distribution information in French.
External links
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