Hypolycaena thecloides

Taxobox
name = Brown Tit


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Hypolycaena"
species = "H. thecloides"
binomial = "Hypolycaena thecloides"
binomial_authority = (Felder and Felder, 1860)

The Brown Tit ("Hypolycaena thecloides") is a small but striking butterfly found in India and South East Asia that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

References

* Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] .
* Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

External Links

* [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EY4Y-TKNM/philframe.html Asahinet] Photographs of correctly determined specimens of "Hypolycaena thecloides" from the Philippines

ee also

*Lycaenidae
*List of butterflies of India
*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)