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Miletus (genus)

Miletus
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Miletus rosei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Miletus
Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
  • Symetha Horsfield, [1828]
  • Gerydus Boisduval, [1836]
  • Archaeogerydus Fruhstorfer, 1915

Miletus is a genus of butterfly. The members (species) are found in the Eastern Palearctic ecozone, the Indomalaya ecozone and some stray east of the Wallace line. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in about 1819 (precise year uncertain). Miletus is the type genus of the subfamily Miletinae.



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