Elymniini

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Elymniini
Large Wall Brown, Lasiommata maera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera (unranked) Rhopalocera Superfamily: Papilionoidea Family: Nymphalidae Subfamily: Satyrinae Tribe: Elymniini
Subtribes
Elymniina Mycalesina Parargina Zetherina

The Elymniini (browns) are one of the large tribes of the Satyrinae in the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterfly) family. Following Savela (2007), they contain the following genera:

Subtribe Parargina

• Aphysoneura Karsch, 1894
• Chonala Moore, 1893
• Enodia Hübner, [1819]
• Hanipha Moore, 1880
• Kirinia Moore, 1893 - includes Esperarge
• Lasiommata Westwood, 1841
• Lethe - treebrowns, woodbrowns, foresters and relatives
• Lopinga Moore, 1893
• Mandarinia Leech, 1892
• Neope Moore, 1866
• Ninguta Moore, 1892
• Nosea Koiwaya, 1993
• Orinoma Gray, 1846
• Pararge Hübner, 1819
• Ptychandra C. & R. Felder, 1861
• Rhaphicera Butler, 1867
• Satyrodes Scudder, 1875
• Tatinga Moore, 1893

Subtribe Zetherina

• Callarge Leech, 1892
• Ethope Moore, 1866 - sometimes placed in the Parargina
• Neorina Westwood, 1850 - sometimes placed in the Parargina
• Penthema Doubleday, 1848
• Zethera Felder, 1861

Subtribe Elymniina

• Elymnias Hübner, 1818

Subtribe Mycalesina

• Bicyclus Kirby, 1871
• Bletogona C. & R. Felder, 1867
• Hallelesis Condamin, 1961
• Heteropsis Westwood, 1850 - includes Admiratio, Henotesia, Houlbertia, Masoura
• Mycalesis - bushbrowns
• Nirvanopsis - formerly Nirvana
• Orsotriaena Wallengren, 1858
• Pseudomycalesis Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979

[edit] Fossil record

Several prehistoric genera have been described from fossils. They all belong into the Parargina:

• Neorinella Martins Neto et al., 1993
• Neorinopsis
• Pseudoneorina Nel & Descimon, 1986
• Satyrites Scudder, 1872

[edit] References

• Savela, Markku (2007): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Satyrinae. Version of 2007-MAY-12. Retrieved 2007-MAY-31.