Hintza Pierrot

Zintha hintza

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae

Zintha is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic, with the only species being Zintha hintza, the blue-eyed Pierrot, blue pied Pierrot or Hintza blue. The pied Pierrots proper are the closely related genus Tuxentius, however, and like Zintha they were formerly included in Castalius.

Distribution

Hintza Pierrot — (c) Dr. Alexey Yakovlev, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Dr. Alexey Yakovlev · CC-BY

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Sources and credits

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Hintza Pierrot

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