Species of butterfly
Bigg's brownie
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Museum specimen from Malaya
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Lepidoptera
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Family:
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Lycaenidae
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Genus:
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Miletus
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Species:
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M. biggsii
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Binomial name
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Miletus biggsii
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Synonyms
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- Gerydus biggsii Distant, 1884
- Gerydus boisduvali albotignula van Eecke, 1914
- Gerydus boisduvali simalurensis Toxopeus, 1928
- Gerydus boisduvali xeragis Fruhstorfer, 1916
- Gerydus boisduvali hyllus Fruhstorfer, 1916
- Gerydus biggsii sebethus Fruhstorfer, 1916
- Gerydus biggsii extraneus Toxopeus, 1929
- Gerydus biggsii natunensis Fruhstorfer, 1916
- Gerydus biggsii niasicus Fruhstorfer, 1913
- Gerydus biggsii batunensis Fruhstorfer, 1913
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Miletus biggsii, the Bigg's brownie,[1][2] is a small butterfly found in India and Myanmar[3][4] that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.
- ^ Page on Markku Savela's site for genus Miletus (Lycaenidae).
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Miletus biggsii". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. . Retrieved 21 April 2018.
- ^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 211, ser no H5.5.
- ^ Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 254. ISBN 978-8170192329.