Tomares (butterfly)

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Tomares
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Scientific classification
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Tomarini
Genus:
Tomares

Rambur, 1840
Species

Eight, see text

Tomares is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. They are presently the only genus in the tribe Tomarini. As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, this is preliminary however. The species are found in the Palearctic.

Species[]

  • Tomares ballus Fabricius, 1787 - Provence hairstreak or cardenillo - Iberian Peninsula, Northern Africa, Mediterranean France
  • Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848) Iran, Iraq, Caucasus
  • Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1980 Azerbaijan
  • (Erschoff, 1874) Afghanistan, northern Pakistan
  • Tomares mauretanicus (Lucas, 1849) - Moroccan hairstreak - northern Africa
  • Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine
  • Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882) Armenia, Turkey, Iran
  • Zhdanko, 2000 Kopet-Dagh
  • Erschoff, 1874 Uzbekistan

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