Toxochitona

Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae

Toxochitona
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Poritiinae
Genus: Toxochitona
Stempffer, 1956[1]

Toxochitona is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species of this genus are endemic to the Afrotropical realm.

Species

  • Toxochitona ankole Stempffer, 1967
  • Toxochitona gerda (Kirby, 1890)
  • Toxochitona sankuru Stempffer, 1961
  • Toxochitona vansomereni (Stempffer, 1954)

References

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Wikispecies has information related to Toxochitona.
  1. ^ Toxochitona at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  • Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 62
Taxon identifiers
Toxochitona


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