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Terinos
Terinos is a genus of Nymphalid butterflies. They are found from Burma, through South-East Asia, to New Guinea.
The few species belonging to this genus differ from those of the closely-allied Cynthia and Cirrochroa in being adorned with a most magnificent, blue-violet velvety lustre. Their chief characteristics consist in the ciliated eyes (which in the Argynnidae appear nearly always naked), in the manner in which the subcostal nervules branch off, in the direction of the lower discocellular which closes the cell in the hindwing and finally
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Royal Assyrian
speciesTerinos terpander
Malayan Assyrian
speciesTerinos clarissa
Large Assyrian
speciesTerinos atlita
Terinos taxiles
speciesTerinos taxiles
Terinos tethys
speciesTerinos tethys
Terinos alurgis
speciesTerinos alurgis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 371599.