Catonephele

Catonephele
Catonephele acontius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Tribe: Epicaliini
Genus: Catonephele
Hübner, [1819]
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms

Epicalia Boisduval 1870 (non Doubleday, 1844: preoccupied)
Epicalia Doubleday, 1844

Catonephele is a nymphalid butterfly genus found in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies.

Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

  • Catonephele acontius (Linnaeus, 1771) – Acontius firewing
  • Catonephele antinoe (Godart, [1824]) – Antinoe catone
  • Catonephele chromis (Doubleday, [1848]) – cloud-forest catone
  • Catonephele cortesi Maza, 1982 – West-Mexican catone
  • Catonephele mexicanaJenkins & Maza, 1985 – Guatemalan catone
  • Catonephele numilia (Cramer, [1775]) – blue-frosted banner, blue-frosted catone, Grecian shoemaker, or stoplight catone
  • Catonephele nyctimus(Westwood, 1850)
  • Catonephele orites Stichel, 1899 – orange-banded shoemaker butterfly
  • Catonephele sabrina (Hewitson, 1851)
  • Catonephele salacia (Hewitson, 1851)
  • Catonephele salambria (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Salambria banner

References

Media related to Catonephele at Wikimedia Commons

  1. ↑ Catonephele at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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