Species of butterfly
| Miletus chinensis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Lepidoptera
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| Family:
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Lycaenidae
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| Genus:
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Miletus
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| Species:
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M. chinensis
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| Binomial name
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Miletus chinensis
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| Synonyms
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- Gerydus irroratus var. assamensis Doherty, 1891 (wet-season form)
- Gerydus boisduvali milvius Fruhstorfer, 1913
- Miletus learchus C. & R. Felder, 1865 (wet-season form)
- Miletus irroratus H. Druce, 1874
- Miletus archilochus kelantanus Corbet, 1938
- Gerydus longeana de Nicéville, 1898
- Miletus chinensis longeana Eliot, 1961
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Miletus chinensis, the common brownie, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Asia (Indomalayan realm)
M. c. learchus
Subspecies
- M. c. chinensis (Yunnan to south-eastern China and Hainan)
- M. c. assamensis (Doherty, 1891) (Kumaon to Assam and Sikkim)
- M. c. learchus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 (Indo-China, Thailand, Burma, northern Malaya)
- M. c. longeana (de Nicéville, 1898) (Manipur, Burma) — Long's brownie
References
- ^ Miletus at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
