Euriphene

Euriphene
Euriphene kahli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Limenitidinae
Genus: Euriphene
Boisduval, 1847
Synonyms
  • Diestogyna Karsch, 1893
  • Radia Hecq, 1976
  • Doricleana Hecq, 1994
  • Euriphenaria Hecq, 1994

Euriphene is a butterfly genus in the subfamily Limenitidinae.The 70 or so member species are confined to the Afrotropical ecozone.They are found mainly in the Guinean Forests of West Africa and the Congolian forests.

Description

Euriphene species resemble Bebearia. The upperside ground colour of the males of some species is grey overlain with a metallic steely-blue sheen (E. barombina, E.coerulea and E.veronica). In other species the ground colour is reddish-brown (E.lysandra and E.gambiae). All the species have a distinctive dark bars in the forewing cell and suffused dark markings on the rest of the wings. Many have an apical arc of small white spots.[1] The head is wide with long, erect palpi. The antennae are very long, with a gradually-formed, robust club. The thorax is robust and woolly. The wing characters are fore-wings moderately large ; costa very much arched ; apex rather acute ; hind-margin nearly straight.Hind-wings sub-oval ; hind-margin entire, or not strongly scalloped. The abdomen is rather small.

Taxonomy

The type species of the genus is Aterica tadema Hewitson.

Species

Listed alphabetically within species groups.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bernard d'Abrera, 2004 Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region, Part 2: Nymphalidae, Libytheidae SBN 978-0-947352-45-5
  2. ↑ Euriphene, funet.fi

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