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Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uranothauma is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Its species are found in the Afrotropical realm.
Uranothauma | |
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Uranothauma crawshayi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
Tribe: | Polyommatini |
Genus: | Uranothauma Butler, 1895 |
Small to medium-sized (wingspan 27-40 millimetres) blues. The hindwings have a thin tail at the hind corner. The uppersides of the males are bluish, the females brown with darker spots. The undersides are brownish-white with brownish-orange transverse stripes and dark brown rings. Most of the species live in high-altitude (montane) forests. The larvae live mostly on the genera Acacia and Albizia (mimosa family), but can also occur on plants in the family Euphorbiaceae.
Content in this edit is translated from the existing Norwegian Wikipedia article at no:Uranothauma; see its history for attribution.
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