2024
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.2.8
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Additional records of lycaenid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) to the butterfly fauna of Iraq

FARHAD A. KHUDHUR,
ZDENEK F. FRIC,
VLADIMÍR HULA
et al.

Abstract: The Iraqi butterfly fauna includes more than 50 species of Lycaenidae, however, it is still largely undersampled and the country deserves wide-ranging surveys. Especially the family Lycaenidae is the most likely candidate group for new discoveries. This article adds two species of Lycaenidae to the Iraqi butterfly fauna. The first species is a native Western Palearctic, Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882) from mountains of the Kurdistan region, and the second species is an exotic invasive species with Nearctic … Show more

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