| Nessaea | |
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| Nessaea hewitsoni Museum specimen. Brazil. | |
| Nessaea obrina (Brazil, Jari River) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Biblidinae |
| Tribe: | Epicaliini |
| Genus: | Nessaea Hübner, 1819 |
| Type species | |
| Papilio ancaeus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Epicallia Erichson, 1848 (non Hübner, [1820]: preoccupied) |
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Nessaea is a genus of nymphalid butterfly found in the Neotropical Ecozone. Unlike virtually all other butterflies with blue coloration, the blue colors in this genus are due to pigmentation[1] rather than iridescence (e.g., Morpho species).
Contents |
Vane-Wright, R.I. 1979. The coloration, identification and phylogeny of Nessaea butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 38: 27–56.
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