Thyridia
| Melantho Tigerwing | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Danainae |
| Tribe: | Ithomiini |
| Genus: | Thyridia Hübner, 1816 |
| Species: | T. psidii |
| Binomial name | |
| Thyridia psidii (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Thyridia is a monotypic[1] genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Hübner in 1816. Its only species is the Melantho Tigerwing or Clapping Ticlear[2] (Thyridia psidii). It is in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae and is found in the Neotropical zone.
Subspecies
Arranged alphabetically.[3]
- T. p. aedesia Doubleday, [1847]
- T. p. cetoides (Rosenberg & Talbot, 1914)
- T. p. hippodamia (Fabricius, 1775)
- T. p. ino C. & R. Felder, 1862
- T. p. melantho Bates, 1866[4]
- T. p. pallida Godman & Salvin, 1898
- T. p. psidii (Linnaeus, 1758)
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- ↑ Thyridia, funet.fi
- ↑ Glassberg, Jeffrey. (2007). A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. p.144.
- ↑ Thyridia psidii, funet.fi
- ↑ Thyridia psidii melantho H. Bates, 1866 (Melantho Tigerwing), Butterflies of America
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