Asterope (butterfly)

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Asterope
Museum specimen Asterope batesii Hewitson, 1850
Museum specimen Asterope batesii Hewitson, 1850
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Genus: Asterope
Hübner, 1819
Diversity
7 species
Type species
Oreas sapphira
Hübner, 1819
Species

Asterope batesii
A. buckleyi
A. degandii
A. leprieuri
A. markii
A. sapphira
A. whitelyi

Asterope is a genus of butterfly found in the Neotropical Ecozone.

Asterope marki davisii Underside.

[edit] References

  • Jenkins, D. W. 1987 Neotropical Nymphalidae VI. Revision of Asterope (=Callithea Auct.). Bull. Allyn Mus. 114, 1-66

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