Lethe (butterfly)

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Lethe
Banded Tree Brown I IMG 6373.jpg
Lethe verma, straight-banded treebrown
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Elymniini
Genus: Lethe
Hübner, [1819]
Species

Numerous, see text

Synonyms
  • Zophoessa
  • Debis

Lethe is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. It includes the treebrowns, woodbrowns, foresters and their relatives. The species in the genus Lethe occur in temperate-tropical southern and eastern Asia, up to Indonesia and in North America.

Lethe anthedon, northern pearly-eye
Lethe

Selected species[]

These 108 species belong to the genus Lethe.

  • Poujade, 1884 c g
  • Lethe andersoni Atkinson, 1871 c g
  • Lethe anthedon (A. Clark, 1936) i g b (northern pearly-eye)
  • Lethe appalachia R. Chermock, 1947 i g b (Appalachian brown)
  • Cramer, 1780 c g
  • Leech, 1891 c g
  • Lethe armandina Oberthür, 1881 c g (Chinese labyrinth )
  • Lethe atkinsonia Hewitson, 1876 c g (small goldenfork )
  • South, 1913 c g
  • Lethe baladeva Moore, 1865 c g (treble silverstripe )
  • Leech, 1891 c g
  • Lethe bhairava Moore, 1857 c g (rusty forester)
  • Fruhstorfer, 1913 g
  • de Nicéville, 1886 c g
  • Leech, 1889 c g
    • Lethe butleri periscelis Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Lethe callipteris Butler, 1877 c g
  • Leech, 1891 c g
  • Lethe chandica Moore, 1857 c g (angled red forester)
    • Lethe chandica ratnacri Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Leech, 1891 c g
    • Lethe christophi hanako Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Lethe confusa Aurivillius, 1897 c g (banded treebrown)
  • Lethe creola (Skinner, 1897) i g b (creole pearly-eye)
  • Leech c g
  • Leech, 1890 c g
  • Lethe dakwania Tytler, 1939 c g
  • Felder, 1867 c g
  • Lethe daretis Hewitson, 1863 c g (Sri Lanka treebrown)
  • Oberthür c g
  • Staudinger, 1896 c g
  • Lethe diana Butler, 1866 c g
    • Lethe diana australis Naritomi, 1943
  • Lethe distans Butler, 1870 c g (scarce red forester)
  • Staudinger, 1896 c g
  • Lethe drypetis Hewitson, 1863 c g (Tamil treebrown)
  • Lethe dura Marshall, 1882 c g (scarce lilacfork)
  • Lethe dynsate Hewitson, 1863 c g (Ceylon forester)
  • Felder, 1867 c g
  • Moore, 1892 g
  • Lethe europa Fabricius, 1775 c g (bamboo treebrown)
    • Lethe europa pavida Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Lethe eurydice (Linnaeus, 1763) i c g b (eyed brown)
  • Leussler, 1916 c g
  • Lethe gemina Leech, 1891 c g (Tytler's treebrown)
    • Lethe gemina zaitha Fruhstorfer, 1914
  • Lang & Monastyrskii g
  • Lethe goalpara Moore, 1865 c g (large goldenfork)
  • Oberthür, 1886 c g
  • Watkins, 1927 g
  • Lethe gulnihal de Nicéville, 1887 - dull forester
  • Leech, 1891 c g (dull forester)
  • Leech, 1891 c g
  • Leech, 1891 c g
  • Lethe insana Kollar, 1844 c g (common forester)
    • Lethe insana formosana Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Fruhstorfer, 1911 c g
  • Evans, 1923 c g
  • Lethe jalaurida de Nicéville, 1880 c g (small silverfork)
  • Lethe kabrua Tytler, 1914 c g (Manipur goldenfork)
  • Tytler, 1914 c g
  • Lethe kansa Moore, 1857 c g (bamboo forester)
  • Okubo, 1979 c g
  • Leech, 1890 c g
  • Butler, 1877 c g
  • Leech, 1891 c g
  • Lethe latiaris Hewitson, 1863 c g (pale forester)
  • Poujade, 1884 c g
  • Lethe maitrya de Nicéville, 1880 c g (barred woodbrown)
  • Felder, 1867 c g
  • Poujade, 1884 c g
  • Lethe margaritae Elwes, 1882 c g (Bhutan treebrown)
  • Motschulsky, 1860 c g
  • Fruhstorfer, 1908 c g
  • Lethe mekara Moore, 1857 c g (common red forester)
  • Fabricius, 1775 c g
  • Lethe moelleri Elwes, 1887 c g (Moeller's silverfork)
  • Oberthür, 1923 c g
  • g
  • Lethe naga Doherty, 1889 c g (Naga treebrown)
  • Lethe nicetas Hewitson, [1868] - yellow woodbrown
  • Lethe nicetella de Nicéville, 1887 - small woodbrown
  • Evans, 1924 c g (small woodbrown)
  • Leech, 1890 c g
  • Lethe ocellata Poujade, 1885 c g (dismal mystic)
  • Poujade, 1885 c g
  • Staudinger, 1895 c g
  • Lethe portlandia (Fabricius, 1781) i b (southern pearly-eye)
  • Leech, 1891 c g
  • Leech, 1892/94 c g
  • Lethe ramadeva De Nicéville, 1887 c g (single silverstripe)
  • Lethe rohria Fabricius, 1787 c g (common treebrown)
    • Lethe rohria daemoniaca Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Doubleday, [1849] c g
  • Lethe satyavati de Nicéville, 1880 - pallid forester
  • Butler, 1871 c g (pallid forester)
  • Lethe scanda Moore, 1857 c g (blue forester)
  • Lethe serbonis Hewitson, 1876 c g (brown forester)
    • Lethe serbonis serbonis
    • Lethe serbonis teesta
  • Hewitson, 1862 c g
  • Lethe siderea Marshall, 1880 c g - scarce woodbrown
  • Lethe sidonis Hewitson, 1863 c g (common woodbrown)
  • Lethe sinorix Hewitson, 1863 c g (tailed red forester)
  • Lang & Monastyrskii g
  • Lethe sura Doubleday, [1849] c g (lilacfork)
  • Doubleday, [1849] c g
  • Leech, 1891 c g
  • Leech, 1890 c g
  • Lethe tristigmata Elwes, 1887 c g (spotted mystic)
  • Doherty, 1886 c g
  • Lethe verma Kollar, 1844 c g (straight-banded treebrown)
    • Lethe verma cintamani Fruhstorfer, 1848
  • Lethe vindhya Felder, 1859 c g (black forester)
  • Lethe violaceopicta Poujade, 1884 c g (Manipur woodbrown)
  • Lethe visrava Moore, 1865 c g (white-edged woodbrown)
  • Fruhstorfer, 1914 c g
  • Fruhstorfer c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4] [5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Lethe Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  2. ^ "Browse Lethe". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  3. ^ "Lethe". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  4. ^ "Lethe Genus Information". BugGuide. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  5. ^ "Lethe Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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