Iraota is a southeast Asian and Indian genus. genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The genus was erected by Frederic Moore in 1881.[1]
Iraota | |
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Iraota rochana boswelliana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Tribe: | Amblypodiini |
Genus: | Iraota Moore, 1881 |
Species
edit- Iraota abnormis (Moulton, 1911)
- Iraota aurigena Fruhstorfer, 1907
- Iraota distanti (Staudinger, 1889)
- Iraota rochana (Horsfield, [1829]) - scarce silverstreak
- Iraota timoleon (Stoll, [1790]) - silverstreak blue
References
edit- ^ "Iraota Moore, [1881]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms