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{{Short description|Genus of brush-footed butterflies}}
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| image = Terinos terpander 178113180.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Terinos terpander]]''
| taxon = Terinos
| authority = [[Jean Baptiste Boisduval|Boisduval]], [1836]<ref>[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/heliconiinae/terinos/ "''Terinos'' Boisduval, [1836&#93;"] at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''</ref>
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'''''Terinos''''' is a genus of [[Nymphalid]] butterflies. They are found from [[Burma]], through [[South-East Asia]], to [[New Guinea]].
[[Image:Terinosclarissamalayana.jpg|thumb|left|230px|''Terinos clarissa malayana'']]
The few species belonging to this genus differ from those of the closely-allied ''[[Cynthia (butterfly)|Cynthia]]'' and ''[[Cirrochroa]]'' in being adorned with a most magnificent, blue-violet velvety lustre. Their chief characteristics consist in the ciliated eyes (which in the Argynnidae appear nearly always naked), in the manner in which the subcostal nervules branch off, in the direction of the lower discocellular which closes the cell in the hindwing and finally
in the enormous sexual spots. In ''Terinos'', the first subcostal is placed before the end of the cell, the second at the very end or a short distance beyond, the third and fourth stand close to one another and some little
distance from the cell. In the male the lower discocellular joins the median vein at the origin of the second nervule, in the female between the first and second, The costa of the forewing is serrate. In the hindwing the cell
is remarkably small and is closed by the lower discocellular which is very thin and in both sexes joins the median between the first and second branch. Moreover the males have a deep fold beyond the cell, as is found
in ''Cynthia'' and ''Cirrochroa''.The males of all the species have
black scent-patches along the radials, the medians and the submedian veins on the forewings, as well as along the subcostal and radial veins on the hindwings; these scent-spots flowing together form one large glossy
patch which in the eastern species extends as far as the upper median of the hindwing. The females of all species have in common that the lower discocellular joins the median vein invariably before the origin of the two
upper median branches.<ref>Seitz, A. 1912–1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter''. ''The Macrolepidoptera of the World''  '''9''': 1–766;[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56106278#page/510/mode/1up pdf] 767–1201,[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56105786#page/5/mode/1up pdf]  pls 1–175.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56108980#page/13/mode/1up pdf]{{PD-notice}}</ref>
==Species==
*''[[Terinos alurgis]]'' <small> Godman & Salvin, 1880</small>
*''[[Terinos atlita]]'' <small> (Fabricius, 1787)</small>
*''[[Terinos clarissa]]'' <small> Boisduval, 1836</small>
*''[[Terinos maddelena]]'' <small> Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1889</small>
*''[[Terinos taxiles]]'' <small> Hewitson, 1862</small>
*''[[Terinos terpander]]'' <small> Hewitson, 1862</small>
*''[[Terinos tethys]]'' <small> Hewitson, 1862</small>
*''[[Terinos romeo]]''  <small>  Schröder and Treadaway, 1984 </small>
==References==
{{Commons}}
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==External links==
*[http://eol.org/pages/18965/media Images representing ''Terinos'' at EOL]
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[[Category:Vagrantini]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Indochina]]
[[Category:Nymphalidae genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval]]
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