Nabokovia

Nabokovia is a Neotropical genus of butterflies, named by Arthur Francis Hemming in honour of Vladimir Nabokov, who extensively studied the Polyommatinae subfamily.[1][2]

Nabokovia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Genus: Nabokovia
Hemming, 1960
Synonyms
  • Pseudothecla Nabokov, 1945 (non Strand, 1910: preoccupied)

Three species are recognized:[2]

  • Nabokovia ada Bálint & Johnson, 1994
  • Nabokovia cuzquenha Bálint & Lamas, [1997]
  • Nabokovia faga (Dognin 1895)

Notes
  1. butterflies
  2. Savela, Markku. "Nabokovia Hemming, 1960". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
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