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Abisara is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae, with species found only in Asia. The genus formerly included African species but it was found to be polyphyletic in 2015. Several species formerly included in the genus were then moved to Afriodinia, Archigenes, Sibosia and Spitosa.

Species

SPECIES

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyLycaenidae
Observations recorded31

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
9
Family
Lycaenidae
Collections
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, OH (CLEV), FMNH, YPM, MZLU
Recorded in
Cameroon, Madagascar, India, Nigeria

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Abisara is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae, with species found only in Asia. The genus formerly included African species but it was found to be polyphyletic in 2015. Several species formerly included in the genus were then moved to Afriodinia, Archigenes, Sibosia and Spitosa.

Most species in the genus have the common name Judy.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abisara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.