Simiskina

Simiskina
Simiskina phalena hayashii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Simiskina Distant, 1886
Synonyms
Massaga Doherty, 1889 (preocc. Walker, 1854)

Simiskina is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. The members (species) of this genus are found in the Indomalaya ecozone.

Species

• Simiskina pasira (Moulton, 1911)
• Simiskina pavonica de Nicéville, 1895
• Simiskina pediada (Hewitson, 1877)
• Simiskina phalena (Hewitson, 1874)
• Simiskina phalia (Hewitson, 1874)
• Simiskina pharyge (Hewitson, 1874)
• Simiskina pheretia (Hewitson, 1874)
• Simiskina philura (Druce, 1895)
• Simiskina proxima de Nicéville, 1895
• Simiskina sibatika Eliot, 1969

References

• Corbet, A. S., 1940. A revision of the Malayan species of Poritiinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Trans. R. ent. Soc. Lond. 90: 337-350, 1 pl., 21 figs.
• Distant, W. L., 1886. Descriptions of new species and a new genus of Rhopalocera from the Malay Peninsula. Entomologist 19:11-12.
• Eliot, J. N., 1969. More revisional notes on oriental butterflies. Entomologist 102: 269-278, 8 figs., 1 pl.
• Eliot, J. N., 1992. In Corbet & Pendlebury, The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. 4th Edn. Kuala Lumpur.
• Savela, M. Funet: Poritiinae.
• Seki, Y., Takanami, Y. and Otsuka, K., 1991. Butterflies of Borneo Vol. 2, No. 1. Lycaenidae. Tobishima Corporation, Tokyo.
• Takanami, Y. & Seki, Y., 2001. A synonymic list of Lycaenidae from the Philippines. Edn. 12.
• Treadaway, C. G., 1995. Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Nachr. entomol. Apollo Suppl.14: 7-118.

External links

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