Athyma
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Staff sergeant (Athyma selenophora) Tadiandamol, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Karnataka, India | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Tribe: | Limenitidini |
Genus: | Athyma Westwood, [1850] |
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Athyma is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. They are commonly known as the "true" or "typical" sergeants, to distinguish them from the false sergeants of the genus Pseudathyma, a fairly close relative from the Adoliadini tribe. The genus ranges from Tibet to the Solomon Islands, but does not occur in New Guinea or Australia.
Species[]
Listed alphabetically:[1]
- Moore, 1858
- C. & R. Felder, 1863
- C. & R. Felder, 1863
- Athyma asura Moore, 1858 – studded sergeant
- Athyma asura baelia (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
- Athyma cama Moore, 1858 – orange staff sergeant
- Athyma cama zoroastes (Butler, 1877)
- Semper, 1878
- Athyma disjuncta Leech, 1890
- C. & R. Felder, 1863
- (Godart, [1824])
- Murayama & Shimonoya, 1962
- Athyma fortuna Leech, 1889
- Athyma fortuna kodahirai (Sonan, 1938)
- Athyma glora Kheil, 1884
- Staudinger, 1889
- Moore, 1858
- Athyma inara Doubleday, 1850 – colour sergeant
- Fruhstorfer, 1906
- Athyma jina Moore, 1857 – Bhutan sergeant
- Athyma jima sauteri (Fruhstorfer, 1912)
- Athyma kanwa Moore, 1858 – dot-dash sergeant
- Doherty, 1891
- Moore, 1858
- Athyma larymna (Doubleday, [1848]) – great sergeant
- Athyma libnites (Hewitson, 1859)
- Athyma nefte (Cramer, [1780]) – colour sergeant
- C. & R. Felder, 1863
- Semper, 1878
- Fruhstorfer, 1898
- Murayama, 1978
- Yoshino, 1997
- Athyma opalina (Kollar, [1844]) – Himalayan sergeant
- Athyma opalina hirayamai (Matsumura, 1935)
- Elwes, 1888
- Athyma perius (Linnaeus, 1758) – common sergeant
- Athyma pravara Moore, 1857 – unbroken sergeant
- Athyma punctata Leech, 1890
- Athyma ranga Moore, 1857 – blackvein sergeant
- Athyma recurva Leech, 1893
- Athyma reta Moore, 1858 – Malay staff sergeant
- Athyma rufula de Nicéville, [1889] – Andaman sergeant
- Athyma selenophora (Kollar, [1844]) – staff sergeant
- Athyma selenophora laela (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
- Staudinger, 1889
- Athyma speciosa Staudinger, 1889
- Athyma sulpitia (Cramer, [1779]) – spotted sergeant
- Athyma zeroca Moore, 1872 – small staff sergeant
References[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Athyma. |
- ^ "Athyma Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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Wikispecies has information related to Athyma. |
External links[]
- Images representing Athyma at EOL
- Images representing Athyma at BOLD
Categories:
- Athyma
- Limenitidinae
- Nymphalidae genera
- Taxa named by John O. Westwood
- Limenitidinae stubs