Pointed Pierrot | |
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Underside of female, from Adalbert Seitz | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Niphanda |
Species: | N. cymbia
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Binomial name | |
Niphanda cymbia de Nicéville 1884
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Niphanda cymbia, the pointed Pierrot, is a small butterfly found in northern India (Sikkim to Assam), Burma and northern Borneo (N. c. reter Druce, 1895) that belongs to the lycaenids or blues family.