Thecla is a genus of butterflies, described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1807, belonging to the family Lycaenidae. The species are found in the Palaearctic.
Species Several, including:
Thecla betulae (Linnaeus, 1758) - brown hairstreak Thecla betulina Staudinger, 1887 Thecla ohyai Fujioka, 1994 China, Yunnan, Li-Kiang. Thecla chalybeia, De Nicéville 1892 Thecla hemon (Cramer, 1775) formerly in the, then. wastebasket taxon "Thecla" sensu lato = Theritas hemon Cramer, 1775 Thecla leechii, De Nicéville 1892 Thecla letha, (Watson, 1896) Thecla pavo, (De Nicéville, 1887) Thecla ziha, (Hewitson, 1865)
References Taxon profile at BioLib "Thecla Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
External links
Images representing Thecla at Consortium for the Barcode of Life