Adelpha

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Adelpha
Butterfly sucking a banana top.JPG
Band-celled sister (A. fessonia)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Limenitidini
Genus: Adelpha
Hübner, 1819
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Heterochroa Boisduval, [1836]

Adelpha is a genus of brush-footed butterflies found from the southern United States and Mexico to South America. They are commonly known as sisters, due to the white markings on their wings, which resemble a nun's habit.[1] This genus is sometimes included with the admiral butterflies (Limenitis).

Species[]

Listed alphabetically within species group:[2][3]

The alala species group:

  • Adelpha alala (Hewitson, 1847) – Alala sister
  • (Hewitson, 1847)
  • (Hewitson, 1847)
  • (Hewitson, 1847) – montane sister
  • (Bates, 1864) – pithys sister
  • (Butler, 1872) – tracta sister
Adelpha alala

The capucinus species group:

  • Schaus, 1902 – Barnes' sister
  • (Walch, 1775) – capycinus sister
  • Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • Fruhstorfer, 1913

The cocala species group:

  • Willmott & Hall, 1995
  • Adelpha boreas (Butler, 1866) – gaudy sister
  • Adelpha cocala (Cramer, 1779) – cocala sister, orange-washed sister
  • (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Godman & Salvin, 1884 – Godman's sister
  • (Boisduval, 1870) – rusty sister, Felder's sister
  • (Doubleday, 1848) – Irmina sister
  • (Fruhstorfer, 1913) – Jordan's sister
  • Adelpha justina (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
  • Willmott & Hall, 1999
  • (Latreille, 1809) – Veracruz sister
  • Steinhauser & Miller, 1977
  • Beutelspacher, 1976 – cloistered sister
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Olynthia sister
  • Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Hall, 1935 – lost sister
  • (Hewitson, 1867) – Saunder's sister
  • Willmott & Hall, 1995
  • (Butler, 1866)
  • DeVries & Chacón, 1982
  • (Hewitson, 1867) – Zina sister

The iphiclus species group:

  • (Hewitson, 1850) – Jamaican sister
  • Adelpha basiloides (Bates, 1865) – spot-celled sister
  • Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • (Bates, 1864) – confusing sister
  • Adelpha iphiclus (Linnaeus, 1758) – pointed sister
  • (Godart, 1824) – Mythra sister
  • Adelpha plesaure Hübner, 1823 – pleasure sister
  • Hall, 1938
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Thessalia sister
  • (Hewitson, 1850) – thoasa sister
Adelpha plesaure

The phylaca species group:

  • Adelpha erotia (Hewitson, 1847) – stitched sister
  • Adelpha lycorias (Godart, 1824) – rayed sister
  • Adelpha mesentina (Cramer, 1777) – mesentina sister
  • (Bates, 1866) – Cecropia sister
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Messana or Thesprotia sister
A. mesentina
A. messana delphicola
Southern Amazon, Brazil

The serpa species group:

  • Adelpha bredowii Geyer, 1837 – Bredow's sister
  • Adelpha californica (Butler, 1865) – California sister
  • Godman & Salvin, 1878 – tailed sister
  • Adelpha eulalia E. Doubleday, 1848) – Arizona sister
  • Weymer, 1907
  • (Doyère, 1840)
  • Adelpha nea (Hewitson, 1847) – Nea sister
  • (Bates, 1865) – Massilia sister, Bates' sister
  • (Bates, 1864) – eyed sister
  • Adelpha radiata Fruhstorfer, 1915 – striated sister
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – dentate sister
  • Adelpha serpa (Boisduval, 1836) – celerio sister, celadon sister
  • (Hewitson, 1850) – Zea sister
Adelpha californica

Ungrouped:

  • (Hewitson, 1850)
  • Austin & Jasinski, 1999
  • Willmott, 2003
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Attica sister
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Felder's sister
  • Adelpha cytherea (Linnaeus, 1758) – smooth-banded sister
  • (Butler, 1872) – white-spotted sister
  • Fruhstorfer, 1913 – Fruhstorfer's Sister or delineated sister
  • Beutelspacher, 1975 – Diaz's sister
  • Adelpha ethelda (Hewitson, 1867) – silver-banded sister
  • (Godart, 1824) – white-barred sister
  • Adelpha fessonia (Hewitson, 1847) – Mexican sister, band-celled sister
  • (Godart, 1824) – Antillean sister
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Heraclea sister
  • Willmott & Hall, 1999
  • (Druce, 1874) – orange-striped sister
  • Beutelspacher, 1975 – Veracruz sister
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Venezuelan sister
  • Adelpha melona (Hewitson, 1847) – Mellona sister
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Naxia sister, three-part sister
  • Adelpha pollina Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • (Butler, 1866) – golden-banded sister
  • Adelpha syma (Godart, 1824) – Syma sister
  • Fruhstorfer, 1913

See also[]

  • Doxocopa - A genus of butterflies whose females closely resemble Adelpha species

References[]

  1. ^ National Audubon Society (1981). Robert Michael Pyle (ed.). The Audubon Society field guide to North American butterflies. Knopf. ISBN 9780394519142.
  2. ^ "Adelpha Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ Jeffrey Glassberg (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-4243-0915-3. pp.97-101.

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