Pratapa icetas, the dark blue royal, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Pakistan and India.[1]
Dark blue royal | |
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Underside right. On the left is an image of the upperside of the very similar longinus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Pratapa |
Species: | P. icetas
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Binomial name | |
Pratapa icetas (Hewitson, 1865)
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References
edit- ^ Moore, Frederic (1912). Lepidoptera Indica. L. Reeve & Company. pp. 144–145.