Asterope (butterfly)

Asterope
Asterope batesii Hewitson, 1850
Museum specimen.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Tribe: Epiphilini
Genus: Asterope
Hübner, 1819
Type species
Oreas sapphira
Hübner, [1819]
Diversity
7 species
Synonyms

Callithea Feisthamel, 1835
Callithea Boisduval, 1836 (non Feisthamel, 1835: preoccupied)
Cyane Felder, 1861

Asterope is a genus of brush-footed butterflies found in the Neotropical Ecozone (South America).

Species

Listed alphabetically.[1][2]

References

  1. Asterope, funet.fi
  2. Asterope, Biolib

External links

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