Sevenia

Sevenia
Boisduval's tree nymph, female on left and male on right
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Tribe: Epicaliini
Genus: Sevenia
Koçak, 1996
Synonyms
  • Crenis Boisduval, 1833 (non Hübner, 1821: preoccupied)
  • Sallya Hemming, 1964 (non Yochelson, 1956: preoccupied)
  • Asterope (auctt., nec Hübner, [1819])

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 fourteen species from continental Africa and two (or three)[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]

References

  1. Williams, M. (1994). Butterflies of Southern Africa; A Field Guide. ISBN 1-86812-516-5
  2. Larsen (2005)
  3. Ackery et al. (1995)
  4. http://sabca.adu.org.za
  5. "Sevenia". tolweb.org. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  6. http://www.nymphalidae.net/Classification/Epicaliini.htm

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