Methona

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Methona
Methona confusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Danainae
Tribe: Ithomiini
Genus: Methona
Doubleday, [1847]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Gelotophye d'Almeida, 1940

Methona is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Doubleday in 1847. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.

Species

Arranged alphabetically.[1]

  • Methona confusa Butler, 1873
  • Methona curvifascia Weymer, 1883
  • Methona grandior (Forbes, 1944)
  • Methona maxima (Forbes, 1944)
  • Methona megisto C. & R. Felder, 1860
  • Methona singularis (Staudinger, [1884])
  • Methona themisto (Hübner, 1818)

References

  1. Methona, funet.fi
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