Nymphidium
| Nymphidium Nymphidium | |
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| Nymphidium haematostichum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Riodinidae |
| Subfamily: | Riodininae |
| Genus: | Nymphidium Fabricius, 1807 |
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Nymphidium is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical ecozone.
Some Nymphidium are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of which being now and then preponderant. The wings have a normal shape without indentations, tail-appendages, lobing or coiling. The larva is shaped like a wood-louse, hunched, green, sometimes with a yellow lateral streak, the neck organ out of a transverse row of green spikes or bristles. It has a guard of ants. The pupa is green, fastened by a belt-like thread. The butterflies rest on the under surface of leaves and are chased up by beating the bushes, whereupon they fly like Geometridae for some paces, in order to hide themselves again. The swarming-time seems to be dawn, or the early morning, but I came across them yet in the sunshine of the morning on blossoms.They are easily taken and fly low.[1]
Species
- Nymphidium acherois (Boisduval, 1836) present in French Guiana and Brazil.
- Nymphidium ariari Callaghan, 1988; present in Colombia.
- Nymphidium ascolia Hewitson, [1853] present in Guatemala, Bolivia and Brazil.
- Nymphidium aurum Callaghan, 1985 present in Brazil.
- Nymphidium azanoides Butler, 1867 present in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Brazil.
- Nymphidium baeotia Hewitson, [1853] present in French Guiana, Guyana and Brazil.
- Nymphidium balbinus Staudinger, [1887] present in Colombia.
- Nymphidium cachrus (Fabricius, 1787) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Colombia.
- Nymphidium callaghani Brévignon, 1999 present in French Guiana.
- Nymphidium caricae (Linnaeus, 1758) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil.
- Nymphidium carmentis Stichel, 1910 present in Ecuador and Bolivia.
- Nymphidium chimborazium Bates, 1868 present in Ecuador.
- Nymphidium chione Bates, 1867 present in Brazil.
- Nymphidium colleti Gallard, 2008
- Nymphidium derufata Callaghan, 1985 present in Surinam.
- Nymphidium fulminans Bates, 1868 present in Colombia and Brazil.
- Nymphidium guyanensis Gallard & Brévignon, 1989 present in French Guiana.
- Nymphidium haematostictum Godman & Salvin, 1878 present in Costa Rica and Panama.
- Nymphidium hermieri Gallard, 2008.
- Nymphidium hesperinum Stichel, 1911 present in Peru.
- Nymphidium latibrunis Callaghan, 1985 present in Ecuador.
- Nymphidium lenocinium Schaus, 1913 present in Costa Rica and Colombia.
- Nymphidium leucosia (Hübner, [1806]) present in Colombia, Peru and Brazil.
- Nymphidium lisimon (Stoll, 1790) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Peru and Brazil.
- Nymphidium manicorensis Callaghan, 1985 present in French Guiana and Brazil.
- Nymphidium mantus (Cramer, 1775) present in French Guiana, en Guyana, au Surinam, au Costa Rica, au Venezuela, à Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil.
- Nymphidium menalcus (Stoll, 1782) present in French Guiana, Surinam and Venezuela.
- Nymphidium ninias Hewitson, 1865 present in Brazil.
- Nymphidium nivea Talbot, 1928 present in Brazil.
- Nymphidium olinda Bates, 1865 present in Panama, Venezuela and Brazil.
- Nymphidium omois Hewitson, 1865 present in Amazonas.
- Nymphidium onaeum Hewitson, 1869 present in Honduras and Panama.
- Nymphidium plinthobaphis Stichel, 1910 present in Brazil and Peru.
- Nymphidium smalli Callaghan, 1999 present in Panama.
- Nymphidium strati Kaye, 1925 present in Trinidad and Tobago.
- Nymphidium trinidadi Callaghan, 1999 present in Trinidad and Tobago.
- Nymphidium undimargo Seitz, 1917 present in Brazil.
Source
- ↑ Seitz, A. 1916. Family:Erycinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5:617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen. also available as pdf
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