Ahmetia

Ahmetia
Ahmetia achaja Fruhstorfer 1912
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Tribe: Cheritrini
Genus: Ahmetia
Ă–zdikmen, 2008
Species: A. achaja
Binomial name
Ahmetia achaja
(Fruhstorfer 1912)
Synonyms

Genus-level:

  • Cowania Eliot, 1973 (non Reinhard, 1952: preoccupied)

Species-level:

  • Cowania achaja (Fruhstorfer 1912)
  • Horaga achaja Fruhstorfer 1912

Ahmetia achaja is a butterfly species in the family Lycaenidae. It belongs to the monotypic genus Ahmetia, formerly known as Cowania (which actually refers to a tachina fly genus). It is sometimes assigned to the tribe Horagini, but it is more probably a member of the closely related Cheritrini.

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