Anaeini

Anaeini is a tribe of Neotropical brush-footed butterflies. Their wing undersides usually mimic dead leaves.

Anaeini
Museum specimen of Cramer's leafwing (Zaretis isidora)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Charaxinae
Tribe: Anaeini
Reuter, 1896
Genera

Ten, see text

Included genera (and notable species) are:

  • Anaea Hübner, [1819][1][2]
    • Anaea aidea – tropical leafwing
    • Anaea andria – goatweed leafwing
    • Anaea eurypyle – ointed leafwing
    • Anaea glycerium – angled leafwing
    • Anaea halice – pear-winged leafwing
    • Anaea nobilis – noble leafwing
    • Anaea oenomaiis – blue leafwing
    • Anaea ryphea – blue-barred leafwing
    • Anaea troglodyta (Fabricius, 1775) – Florida leafwing, Portia, or Florida goatweed butterfly
  • Coenophlebia
  • Consul
  • Fountainea
  • Hypna
  • Memphis (formerly included in Anaea)
  • Polygrapha
  • Siderone
  • Zaretis Hübner, [1819]

Aneaomorpha is sometimes placed here, but more often in the Preponini.

References

  1. "Anaea Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Glassberg, Jeffrey. (2007) A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. p. 120–1.


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