Mantoides

Mantoides is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae erected by Hamilton Herbert Druce in 1896. Its only species, Mantoides gama, the Distant's Imperial, was first described by William Lucas Distant in 1886.^[2] It is found in the Indomalayan realm.^[3]

Mantoides
Mantoides gama gama from Malaya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Iolaini
Genus:	Mantoides H. H. Druce, 1896
Species:	M. gama
Binomial name
Mantoides gama (Distant, 1886)[1]