Philaethria

Philaethria
Philaethria dido
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Heliconiinae
Tribe:	Heliconiini
Genus:	Philaethria Billberg, 1820
Philaethria species
See text
Synonyms
Metamandana (Stichel, 1908)

Philaethria is a genus of New World butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae.

Species

The following is a list of species classified under Philaethria:^[1]

• Philaethria andrei Brevignon, 2002 - No common name. Found in Macouria, French Guiana
• Philaethria constantinoi Salazar, 1991 - (incertae sedis) No common name. Found in the Chocó Department of Western Colombia
• Philaethria diatonica (Fruhstorfer, 1912) - No common name. Found in Central America and Mexico
• Philaethria dido (Linnaeus, 1763) – Scarce Bamboo Page, Longwing Dido, or Green Heliconia. The most widespread species of Philaethria. It can be found as far north as Mexico and Texas^[2] to as far south as the Amazon Basin.^[3]
• Philaethria ostara (Röber, 1906) - No common name. Found in the Cauca Department of Western Colombia
• Philaethria pygmalion (Fruhstorfer, 1912) - No common name. Found in the state of Pará, Brazil
• Philaethria wernickei (Röber, 1906) - No common name. Found in the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul of Brazil

• 

  Philaethria dido

• 

  Philaethria pygmalion - MHNT

References

1. http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/heliconiinae/philaethria/index.html Philaethria
2. "Butterflies of Texas: Scarce Bamboo Page (Philaethria dido)". Butterflies of North America, The Registry of Nature Habitats. Retrieved July 30, 2011.
3. "Dido Longwing". Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes. Retrieved July 30, 2011.

• Philaethria, Tree of life