Sevenia
| Sevenia | |
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| Boisduval's Tree Nymph female on the left and male on the right | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Biblidinae |
| Tribe: | Epicaliini |
| Genus: | Sevenia Koçak, 1996 |
| Synonyms | |
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Crenis Boisduval, 1833 (non Hübner, 1821: preoccupied) | |
Sevenia, commonly called tree nymphs, is a genus of forest butterflies in the Nymphalidae family that, as larvae, feed on plants of the Euphorbiaceae family.[1] There are 14 species from continental Africa and 2 (or 3[2]) species from Madagascar.[3] See Idea for the genus of Southeast Asian tree nymphs.
Taxonomy
Sevenia (as Sallya) has been viewed as a subgenus of the neotropical genus Eunica by authors.The type species of the genus is Crenis madagascariensis Boisduval
Species and subspecies
Listed alphabetically.[4][5][6]
- Sevenia amazoula (Mabille, 1880)
- Sevenia amulia (Cramer, 1777)
- Sevenia amulia amulia (Cramer, 1777) (= Papilio amulia Cramer, 1777)
- Sevenia amulia rosa (Hewitson, 1877)
- Sevenia amulia intermedia Carcasson, 1961
- Sevenia benguelae (Chapman, 1872)
- Sevenia boisduvali (Wallengren, 1857) (= Crenis boisduvali Wallengren, 1857) – Boisduval's Tree Nymph
- Sevenia boisduvali boisduvali (Wallengren, 1857)
- Sevenia boisduvali omissa (Rothschild, 1918)
- Sevenia boisduvali kaffana (Rothschild & Jordan)
- Sevenia boisduvali insularis (Joicey & Talbot)
- Sevenia consors (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Sevenia dubiosa (Strand, 1911)
- Sevenia garega (Karsch, 1892)
- Sevenia garega garega (Karsch, 1892)
- Sevenia garega ansorgei (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)
- Sevenia howensis (Staudinger, 1886)
- Sevenia madagascariensis (Boisduval, 1833) (= Crenis madagascariensis Boisduval, 1833)
- Sevenia morantii (Trimen, 1881) (= Crenis morantii Trimen, 1881) – Morant's Tree Nymph
- Sevenia morantii morantii (Trimen, 1881)
- Sevenia morantii dubiosa (Strand)
- Sevenia natalensis (Boisduval, 1847) (= Crenis natalensis Boisduval, 1847) – Natal Tree Nymph
- Sevenia occidentalium (Mabille, 1876)
- Sevenia occidentalium occidentalium (Mabille, 1876)
- Sevenia occidentalium penricei (Rothschild & Jordan)
- Sevenia pechueli (Dewitz, 1879)
- Sevenia pechueli pechueli (Dewitz, 1879)
- Sevenia pechueli rhodesiana (Rothschild)
- Sevenia pseudotrimeni Kielland, 1985
- Sevenia rosa (Hewitson, 1877) – Rosa's Tree Nymph
- Sevenia silvicola (Schultze, 1917)
- Sevenia trimeni (Aurivillius, 1899) (= Crenis natalensis var. trimeni Aurivillius, 1899) – Trimen's Tree Nymph
- Sevenia trimeni trimeni (Aurivillius, 1899)
- Sevenia trimeni major (Rothschild)
- Sevenia umbrina (Karsch, 1892)
References
- ↑ Williams, M. (1994). Butterflies of Southern Africa; A Field Guide. ISBN 1-86812-516-5
- ↑ Larsen (2005)
- ↑ Ackery et al. (1995)
- ↑ Southern African Butterfly Conservation Assessment, http://sabca.adu.org.za, retrieved 22 June 2010
- ↑ Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2006. Sevenia Kocack 1996. Tree Nymphs. Version 13 November 2006 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Sevenia/86624/2006.11.13 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/, retrieved 5 July 2010
- ↑ NYMPHALIDAE.net: http://www.nymphalidae.net/Classification/Epicaliini.htm, retrieved 5 July 2010
External links
Media related to Sevenia at Wikimedia Commons
- Sallya, funet.fi (Sallya is a synonym of Sevenia)
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 49 et prae