Titea

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Titea
Titea sublutea from Descriptions of new Species of Butterflies of the Division Rhopalocera from Africa and from New Guinea, 1908
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Titea

Eliot, 1973

Titea is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae.[1]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Sands, D. P. A. (1979). "NEW SPECIES OFPHILIRISRÖBER (LEPIDOPTERA: LYCAENIDAE) FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA". Australian Journal of Entomology. 18 (2): 127–133. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1979.tb00824.x. ISSN 1326-6756. Eliot (1973) separated two species, P. sublutea (Bethune-Baker) and P. caerulea Tite from New Guinea, placing them in a new genus Titea and showed that Philiris, Titea, Parachrysops Bethune-Baker, Hypochrysops C. and R. Felder, and Waigeum Staudinger were a closely related group of genera within the tribe Luciini