Brintesia

Brintesia
Brintesia circe
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Genus: Brintesia
Fruhstorfer, 1911
Synonyms
  • Oreas Hübner, [1806]
  • Oreas Oken, 1815

Brintesia is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae subfamily Satyrinae.

This genus, described by Hans Fruhstorfer in 1911, has only one species:

Brintesia circe (Fabricius, 1775), common name: the Great Banded Grayling

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