Nessaea

Nessaea
Nessaea batesii Museum specimen. French Guyana.
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
Synonyms

Epicallia Erichson, 1848 (non Hübner, [1820]: preoccupied)
Polychroa Billberg, 1820

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 rather than iridescence (e.g., Morpho species).

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References

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.

External links

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