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Tuxentius
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Tuxentius is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as pied Pierrots or pies. Contained in this genus are the African species formerly placed in Castalius, except the blue-eyed Pierrot (sometimes called blue pied Pierrot) which is separated in Zintha.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 31
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Collections
- YPM, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, OH (CLEV), SAM, NHMUK, USNM
- Recorded in
- Kenya, Eritrea, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana
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Encyclopedic overview
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Tuxentius is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as pied Pierrots or pies. Contained in this genus are the African species formerly placed in Castalius, except the blue-eyed Pierrot (sometimes called blue pied Pierrot) which is separated in Zintha.
==Species== The members of genus Tuxentius are: Tuxentius calice (Hopffer, 1855) – white Pierrot Tuxentius carana (Hewitson, 1876) – forest pied Pierrot Tuxentius cretosus (Butler, 1876) – savanna pied Pierrot Tuxentius ertli (Aurivillius, 1907) – Ertli's Pierrot Tuxentius gabrieli Balint, 1999 – Gabriel's Pierrot Tuxentius hesperis (Vári, 1976) – western pie Tuxentius kaffana (Talbot, 1935) Tuxentius margaritaceus (Sharpe, 1892) – mountain pied Pierrot Tuxentius melaena (Trimen, 1887) – dark pied Pierrot Tuxentius stempfferi (Kielland, 1976) – Stempffer's Pierrot
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tuxentius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.