Tomares (butterfly)

Tomares
Tomares mauretanicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Theclinae
Tribe:	Tomarini Eliot, 1973
Genus:	Tomares Rambur, 1840
Species[1]
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Tomares is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. They are presently the only genus in the tribe Tomarini.[2] As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, this is preliminary however. The species are found in the Palearctic.[1]

Species

• Tomares ballus (Fabricius, 1787) - Provence hairstreak or cardenillo - Iberian Peninsula, Northern Africa, Mediterranean France
• Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848) Iran, Iraq, Caucasus
• Tomares desinens Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1980 Azerbaijan
• Tomares fedtschenkoi (Erschoff, 1874) Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, northern Pakistan
• Tomares mauretanicus (Lucas, 1849) - Moroccan hairstreak - northern Africa
• Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine
• Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882) Armenia, Turkey, Iran
• Tomares telemachus Zhdanko, 2000 Kopet-Dagh

References

1. "Tomares". ftp.funet.fi. Markku Savela. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
2. Citizen science observations for Tomarini at iNaturalist

External links

• Butterfly Conservation Armenia