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King Coppers
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King Coppers

Tylopaedia

Tylopaedia is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It is monotypic containing only the species Tylopaedia sardonyx, the king copper, which is found in South Africa and Namibia.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first

King Copper

speciesTylopaedia sardonyx

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 640311.