Tomares
Tomares mauretanicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Theclinae
Tribe: Tomarini
Eliot, 1973
Genus: Tomares
Rambur, 1840
Species[1]

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Tomares is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. They are presently the only genus in the tribe Tomarini.[2] As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, this is preliminary however. The species are found in the Palearctic.[1]

Species

  • Tomares ballus (Fabricius, 1787) - Provence hairstreak or cardenillo - Iberian Peninsula, Northern Africa, Mediterranean France
  • Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848) Iran, Iraq, Caucasus
  • Tomares desinens Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1980 Azerbaijan
  • Tomares fedtschenkoi (Erschoff, 1874) Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, northern Pakistan
  • Tomares mauretanicus (Lucas, 1849) - Moroccan hairstreak - northern Africa
  • Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine
  • Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882) Armenia, Turkey, Iran
  • Tomares telemachus Zhdanko, 2000 Kopet-Dagh

References

  1. 1 2 "Tomares". ftp.funet.fi. Markku Savela. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  2. ↑ Citizen science observations for Tomarini at iNaturalist


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