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Castalius
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Castalius is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as Pierrots. This name is also often used for the very closely related genus Tarucus.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyLycaenidae
豹灰蝶屬（Pierrot，學名：Castalius）是灰蝶科眼灰蝶亞科中的一個屬。分佈於東南亞的蘇拉威西、印度等地。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 31
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, FMNH, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia, Uganda, Philippines
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Castalius is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as Pierrots. This name is also often used for the very closely related genus Tarucus.
In fact, the delimitation of Castalius versus Tarucus is not yet fully resolved, with some species, such as the dark Pierrot (T. ananda), having been moved between the two genera repeatedly. Regardless of how this may turn out, the African species formerly placed in Castalius are now in Tuxentius (pied Pierrots) and Zintha (blue-eyed Pierrot), which are also very close relatives (in particular the former).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Castalius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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