Childrena

Childrena
Childrena childreni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Nymphalidae
Tribe:Argynnini
Genus:Childrena
Hemming, 1943 [1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Eudryas Reuss, 1926 (preocc. Boisduval, [1836], Harris, 1841, Fitzinger, 1843, Gistl, 1848)

Childrena is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, closely related to Argynnis and sometimes included in that genus), found in Asia.[2]

The genus contains two species

  • Childrena childreni (Gray, 1831) North India, Assam, Nepal,Upper Burma, the Himalayas, North Burma, West China, Central China and Hong Kong
  • Childrena zenobia (Leech, 1890) China, Tibet, South Ussuri

References

  1. ↑ Hemming, 1943 Notes on the generic nomenclature of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera II Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 23-30
  2. ↑ Funet
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