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Chazara
Chazara is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae of the brush-footed butterfly family (Nymphalidae). The most well-known is the hermit butterfly (C. briseis). C. briseis can be found as far west as Morocco and as far eastward as Mongolia. They inhabit the Tian Shan mountain range of Central Asia, also known as the Celestial Mountains, which are fabled in Daoist literature as the place where the Goddess of the West attends to the Peaches of...
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first
The Hermit
speciesChazara briseis
dark rockbrown
speciesChazara persephone
Dark Rockbrown
speciesChazara enervata
Chazara bischoffii
speciesChazara bischoffii
Shandur Rockbrown
speciesChazara heydenreichi
Southern Hermit
speciesChazara prieuri
Chazara kaufmanni
speciesChazara kaufmanni
Chazara egina
speciesChazara egina
Chazara staudingeri
speciesChazara staudingeri
Chazara rangontavica
speciesChazara rangontavica
Chazara mortezai
speciesChazara mortezai
Chazara sieversi
speciesChazara sieversi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 85458.