Greta (butterfly)

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Greta
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Greta morgane
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Ithomiini
Genus: Greta
Hemming, 1934
Type species
Papilio diaphanus
(Drury, 1773)
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Hymenitis Hübner, 1816 non Hymenitis Illiger, 1807 = Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807, a related genus
  • Hypomenitis Fox, 1945

Greta is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Arthur Francis Hemming in 1934. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae, and are found in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Species[]

Arranged alphabetically:[1][2]

  • (Hewitson, 1869)
  • Greta andromica (Hewitson, [1854]) – andromica clearwing
  • (Guérin-Ménéville, [1844]) – white-spotted clearwing
  • (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1862) – Cuban clearwing
  • (Boisduval, 1870)
  • (Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847)
  • Greta diaphanus (Drury, [1773]) – Antillean clearwing
  • (Haensch, 1905)
  • (Hewitson, 1855)
  • (Brabant & Bischler, 2005) – Gabi's clearwing
  • (Weeks, 1901)
  • (Haensch, 1903)
  • Greta libethris (C & R Felder, 1867) – Libethris clearwing
  • (Vitale & Bollino, 2001)
  • (Weymer, 1899)
  • Greta morgane (Geyer, 1833) – thick-tipped greta, Morgane clearwing, rusty clearwing
  • (Hewitson, 1854) – Nero clearwing
  • (Haensch, 1903)
  • (Kaye, 1918)
  • (Weymer, 1890) – orthygia clearwing
  • Greta oto (Hewitson, 1854) – glasswing
  • (Hewitson, [1863]) – Polissena clearwing
  • (Weymer, 1899)
  • Greta theudelinda (Hewitson, [1861])

References[]

  1. ^ "Greta Hemming, 1934" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Nymphalidae Study Group website Archived 2009-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
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