Thrix

Thrix
Thrix scopula scopula Brunei
Thrix scopula elioti From the Courvoisier Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Thrix
Doherty, 1891
Species: T. scopula
Binomial name
Thrix scopula
(Druce, 1873)

Thrix is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. Its one species is Thrix scopula.[1] found in the Indomalayan realm (in Borneo, Sumatra and Peninsular Malaya)

Subspecies

  • T. s. scopula Borneo, Sumatra
  • T. s. nisibis (de Nicéville, 1895) Peninsular Malaya
  • T. s. elioti Takanami, 1989 Nias Island

References

  1. "Thrix Doherty, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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