Taygetis

Taygetis is a genus of satyrid butterfly found in the Neotropic ecozone.

Species

Listed alphabetically.^[1]

• Taygetis acuta Weymer, 1910
• Taygetis angulosa Weymer, 1907
• Taygetis asterie Weymer, 1910
• Taygetis chiquitana Forster, 1964
• Taygetis chrysogone Doubleday, [1849]
• Taygetis cleopatra C. & R. Felder, 1862
• Taygetis drogoni Siewert , Zacca , F.M.S. Dias & Freitas, 2013
• Taygetis echo (Cramer, [1775])
• Taygetis elegia Weymer, 1910
• Taygetis fulginia d’Almeida, 1922
• Taygetis inambari Miller & Lamas, 1999
• Taygetis inconspicua Draudt, 1931
• Taygetis kerea Butler, 1869
• Taygetis laches (Fabricius, 1793)
• Taygetis larua C. & R. Felder, 1867
• Taygetis leuctra Butler, 1870
• Taygetis mermeria (Cramer, [1776])
• Taygetis oyapock Brévignon, 2007
• Taygetis rectifascia Weymer, 1907
• Taygetis rufomarginata Staudinger, 1888
• Taygetis servius Weymer, 1910
• Taygetis sosis Hopffer, 1874
• Taygetis sylvia Bates, 1866
• Taygetis thamyra (Cramer, [1779])
• Taygetis tripunctata Weymer, 1907
• Taygetis uncinata Weymer, 1907
• Taygetis uzza Butler, 1869
• Taygetis virgilia (Cramer, [1776])
• Taygetis weymeri Draudt, 1912
• Taygetis ypthima (Hübner, 1816)
• Taygetis zippora Butler, 1869

References

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• Brevignon, Christian, 2005: Description of new Satyrinae from French Guiana (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Lambillionea CV sept.: 393-404.
• Lamas, Gerardo, 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea
• Siewert, R.R. ; Zacca, T. , Dias, F.M.S. ; Freitas, A.V.L. , Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M., 2013: The “Taygetis ypthima species group” (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae): taxonomy, variation and description of a new species. Zookeys, 356: 11-29: Abstract and full article: doi:10.3897/zookeys.356.6481