Anthanassa

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Anthanassa
Blackened crescent (Anthanassa otanes fulviplaga).jpg
Blackened crescent
Anthanassa otanes fulviplaga, Panama
Orange-patched crescent (Anthanassa drusilla drusilla) male.jpg
Orange-patched crescent
Anthanassa drusilla drusilla male, Panama
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Melitaeini
Genus: Anthanassa
Scudder, 1875
Synonyms

Anthanassa is a genus of North and South American butterflies of the family Nymphalidae found from the United States to South America. One authority places this genus as a subgenus of Phyciodes.[1]

Species[]

Listed alphabetically:[1][2]

  • (Hewitson, 1864)
  • Higgins, 1981
  • Anthanassa ardys (Hewitson, 1864) – Ardys crescent, ardent crescent
  • Anthanassa argentea (Godman & Salvin, [1882]) – chestnut crescent
  • (Bates, 1866) – brown crescent
  • Anthanassa crithona (Salvin, 1871) – crithona crescent
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – orange-patched crescent
  • (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) – notched crescent
  • (Godman & Salvin, 1878) – weak-banded crescent
  • Anthanassa frisia (Poey, 1832) – Cuban crescentspot, Cuban crescent
    • Anthanassa frisia tulcis (H.W. Bates, 1864) – pale-banded crescent
  • (Godman & Salvin, 1878) – blurry crescent
  • (Hewitson, 1864) – Otanes crescent, cloud-forest crescent, Blackened crescent
  • (Bates, 1864) – black crescent
  • (Godman & Salvin, [1882]) – montane crescent, pine crescent
  • (Godman & Salvin, 1878)
  • Anthanassa texana (Edwards, 1863) – Texan crescent

References[]

  1. ^ a b Glassberg, J. (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America Sunstreak Books, pp. 89-91.
  2. ^ "Anthanassa Scudder, 1875" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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