Taraka (butterfly)

Taraka
Copulating pair of Taraka haimada.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Tarakini
Eliot, 1973
Genus: Taraka
Doherty, 1889

Taraka is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae that inhabit the East Asian Palearctic ecozone and Indomalaya ecozone. It includes the species Taraka hamada.

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