Thecla (butterfly) explained

Thecla is a genus of butterflies, described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1807, belonging to the family Lycaenidae. The species are found in the Palaearctic.

Species

Several, including:

• Thecla betulae (Linnaeus, 1758) - brown hairstreak
• Thecla betulina Staudinger, 1887
• Thecla ohyai Fujioka, 1994 China, Yunnan, Li-Kiang.
• Thecla chalybeia, De Nicéville 1892
• Thecla hemon (Cramer, 1775) formerly in the, then. wastebasket taxon "Thecla" sensu lato = Theritas hemon Cramer, 1775
• Thecla leechii, De Nicéville 1892
• Thecla letha, (Watson, 1896)
• Thecla pavo, (De Nicéville, 1887)
• Thecla ziha, (Hewitson, 1865)

References

• Taxon profile at BioLib
• "Thecla Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

• Images representing Thecla at Consortium for the Barcode of Life