Miletus chinensis
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Miletus |
| Species: | M. chinensis |
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Miletus chinensis, the common brownie, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in South Asia (Indomalayan realm)
Subspecies
[edit]- 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
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