Monodontides cara is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found on Sulawesi.

Monodontides cara
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Monodontides
Species:
M. cara
Binomial name
Monodontides cara
Synonyms
  • Cyaniris cara de Nicéville, 1898

References

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  1. ^ "Monodontides Toxopeus, 1927" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • de Nicéville, L., 1898. On new and little-known butterflies from the Indo-Malayan, Austro-Malayan and Australian Regions. The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 12: 131–160, 4 pls.
  • Eliot, J. N. and Kawazoe, A., 1983. Blue Butterflies of the Lycaenopsis Group: 1–309, 6 pls. London.
  • Fruhstorfer, H., 1917. Revision der Lycaenidengattung Lycaenopsis. Arch. Naturgesch. 82 (A) (1) (1916): 1-42, 2 pls.
  • Fruhstorfer, H., 1922. In Seitz, A., Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 9, Gattungen Megisba, Lycaenopsis, Pithecops. pp. 857–881. Stuttgart.