Tomares is a genus of lycaenid butterflies. They are presently the only genus in the tribe Tomarini. As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, this is preliminary however. The species are found in the Palearctic.
Species Tomares ballus (Fabricius, 1787) - Provence hairstreak or cardenillo - Iberian Peninsula, Northern Africa, Mediterranean France Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848) Iran, Iraq, Caucasus Tomares desinens Nekrutenko & Effendi, 1980 Azerbaijan Tomares fedtschenkoi (Erschoff, 1874) Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, northern Pakistan Tomares mauretanicus (Lucas, 1849) - Moroccan hairstreak - northern Africa Tomares nogelii (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882) Armenia, Turkey, Iran Tomares telemachus Zhdanko, 2000 Kopet-Dagh
References
External links Butterfly Conservation Armenia