Childrena

Childrena

Childrena childreni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Heliconiinae
Genus:	Childrena Hemming, 1943 ^[1]

See text.
Synonyms
Eudryas Reuss, 1926 (preocc. Boisduval, [1836], Harris, 1841, Fitzinger, 1843, Gistl, 1848)

Childrena is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, closely related to Argynnis and sometimes included in that genus), found in Asia.^[2]

The genus contains two species

Childrena childreni (Gray, 1831) North India, Assam, Nepal,Upper Burma, the Himalayas, North Burma, West China, Central China and Hong Kong
Childrena zenobia (Leech, 1890) China, Tibet, South Ussuri

References

↑ Hemming, 1943 Notes on the generic nomenclature of the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera II Proc. R. ent. Soc. Lond. (B) 12 : 23-30
↑ Funet

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