Siderone

Siderone
	Siderone syntyche, figures 4 and 5 from Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Charaxinae
Tribe:	Anaeini
Genus:	Siderone; Hübner, [1823]
Synonyms
	Siderone Boisduval, [1836]; Phyllophasis Blanchard, 1840; Sideronidia Bryk, 1939;

Siderone is a Neotropical nymphalid butterfly genus in the subfamily Charaxinae.

Species

Siderone galanthis (Cramer, [1775]) – scarlet leafwing, red-and-black leafwing, or red-striped leafwing
Siderone nemesis (Illiger, 1801) – Nemesis
Siderone syntyche Hewitson, 1854 – red-patched leafwing

"Siderone Hübner, [1823]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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