Nabokovia

Nabokovia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Lycaenidae
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]

Species include:

  • Nabokovia faga (Dognin 1895)[3]

Notes


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