Tigridia acesta
Tigridia acesta | |
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Male - MHNT | |
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Male underside - MHNT | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Tribe: | Coeini (disputed) |
Genus: | Tigridia Hübner, 1819 |
Species: | T. acesta |
Binomial name | |
Tigridia acesta | |
Synonyms | |
Papilio acesta Linnaeus, 1758 |
Tigridia acesta, the tiger beauty, is a butterfly of the monotypic genus Tigridia in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.[1]
It is sometimes placed in the tribe Coeini and sometimes in the tribe Nymphalini.
Subspecies
- T. a. acesta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mexico)
- T. a. columbina (Neustetter, 1929) (Colombia)
- T. a. fulvescens (Butler, 1873) (Peru, Ecuador)
- T. a. latifascia (Butler, 1873) (Colombia)
- T. a. ochracea (Bryk, 1953) (Peru)
- T. a. tapajona (Butler, 1873) (Brazil)
References
- ↑ "Tigridia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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