Tomares (butterfly)
| Tomares | |
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| Tomares mauretanicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Theclinae |
| Tribe: | Tomarini Eliot, 1973 |
| Genus: | Tomares Rambur, 1840 |
| Species[1] | |
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ a b "Tomares". ftp.funet.fi. Markku Savela. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
- ^ Citizen science observations for Tomarini at iNaturalist
External links[edit]
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