Nabokovia

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Nabokovia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Nabokovia
Hemming, 1960
Synonyms
  • Pseudothecla Nabokov, 1945 (non Strand, 1910: preoccupied)

Nabokovia is a Neotropical genus of butterflies, named by Arthur Francis Hemming in honour of Vladimir Nabokov, who extensively studied the Polyommatinae subfamily.[1][2]

Three species are recognized:[2]

  • Bálint & Johnson, 1994
  • Bálint & Lamas, [1997]
  • (Dognin 1895)

Notes[]

  1. ^ butterflies
  2. ^ a b Savela, Markku. "Nabokovia Hemming, 1960". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 17, 2019.

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