Cethosia

Cethosia
	Cethosia penthesilea paksha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Acraeini
Genus:	Cethosia; Fabricius, 1807
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Alazonia Hübner, [1819]; Eugramma Billberg, 1820;

Cethosia, commonly called the lacewings, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae. They are found mainly in southeastern Asia as far south as Australia.

Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

Cethosia biblis (Drury, [1773]) – red lacewing, common lacewing, or batik lacewing
Cethosia cyane (Drury, [1773]) – leopard lacewing
Cethosia cydippe (Linnaeus, 1767) – eastern red lacewing
Cethosia hypsea Doubleday, [1847]
- Cethosia hypsea hypsina (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Malay lacewing
Cethosia lamarcki Godart, 1819
Cethosia luzonica C. & R. Felder, 1863 – Luzon lacewing
Cethosia myrina C. & R. Felder, [1867] – violet lacewing
Cethosia nietneri C. & R. Felder, [1867] – Tamil lacewing
Cethosia obscura Guérin-Méneville, [1830]
Cethosia penthesilea (Cramer, [1777])
- C. p. methypsea (Butler, 1879) – plain lacewing
- C. p. paksha (Fruhstorfer, 1905) – orange lacewing

"Cethosia Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Parsons M. (1999). The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea: Their Systematics and Biology. Academic Press, San Diego.
Vane-Wright RI, and de Jong R. (2003). The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen 343: 1-267. PDF

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