Tajuria is an Indomalayan genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.

Tajuria
Peacock royal (Tajuria cippus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Theclini
Genus: Tajuria
Moore, [1881][1]
Synonyms
  • Ops de Nicéville, 1895
  • Cophanta Moore, 1884
  • Remelana Distant, 1884 (nec Moore, 1884)
  • Creusa de Nicéville, [1896]

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References edit

  1. ^ Tajuria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Fruhstorfer, H., 1897. Neue Rhopaloceren aus dem Malayischen Archipel Societas Entomologica 12(7): 49-50.
  • Hayashi, H., 2011: A new subspecies of Tajuria matsutaroi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Leyte Is., the Philippines. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 62(1): 33-34. Abstract: [1].
  • Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9.
  • Moore, F., 1881. Lepidoptera of Ceylon Volume 1. L. Reeve & Co., London. 190 pp. 71 pls.
  • Morinaka, S. & Shinkawa, T., 1996. a study of Tajuria discalis Fruhstorfer, 1897 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Indonesia. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 47: 83-92.
  • Morita, S. 1996: A new subspecies of the genus Tajuria from Taiwan (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Wallace 2: 6-7.
  • Schroeder, H.G. ; C.G. Treadaway & J. Nuyda, 1999: Zur kenntnis philippinischer Lycaenidae, 11. (Lepidoptera). Entomologische Zeitschrift 109 (4): 145-154.
  • Seki, Y., 2006: Tajuria diaeus (Hewitson) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from North Sumatra with a description of a new subspecies. Butterflies (Teinopalpus) 43: 30-31.
  • Treadaway, Colin G. & Schrőder, Heinz G., 2012: Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, Suppl. 20: 1-64.

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