Pyronia
| Pyronia | |
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| Pyronia tithonus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
| Tribe: | Satyrini |
| Genus: | Pyronia Hübner, [1819] |
| Diversity | |
| 5 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pyronia is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically.[1]
- Pyronia bathseba (Fabricius, 1793) – Spanish gatekeeper [Morocco, Algeria, Southwest Europe]
- Pyronia cecilia (Vallantin, 1894) – Southern gatekeeper [Morocco, Southern Europe, Asia Minor]
- Pyronia coenonympha Felder, 1865 – [Himalayas]
- Pyronia janiroides (Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]) – False meadow brown [Algeria, Tunisia]
- Pyronia tithonus (Linnaeus, 1771) – Gatekeeper, hedge brown [Europe, Asia Minor, Caucasus, Morocco]
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