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Zizina Chapman 1910

Andrew V. Z. Brower
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Containing group: Polyommatini

Introduction

A small Old World tropical genus of three species. Z. antanossa is widespread in the Afrotropical region and south Asia, Z. otis replaces it in southeast Asia, and Z. labradus ranges from Sri Lanka to New Zealand and the Fiji Islands.

References

Ackery, P. R., Smith, C. R. & Vane-Wright, R. I. (ed.) 1995 Carcasson's African butterflies. Canberra: CSIRO.

Corbet, A. S., Pendlebury, H. M. & Eliot, J. N. 1992 The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Kuala Lumpur: Malayan Nature Society.

Larsen, T. B. 1991 The butterflies of Kenya and their natural history. Oxford, U. K.: Oxford University Press.

Larsen, T. B. 2005 Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books.

Parsons, M. 1999 The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology. San Diego: Academic Press.

Vane-Wright, R. I. & de Jong, R. 2003 The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen 343, 1-267.

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Scientific Name Zizina labradus
Location Wamboin, New South Wales, Australia
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Common Grass-blue (Zizinia labradus)
Source Collection Flickr
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Scientific Name Zizina otis lampa
Location Pulau Ubin, Singapore
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source IMG_0085a
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Copyright © 2008 budak
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Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

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