Moschoneura
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Pinthous mimic white | |
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Genus: | Moschoneura |
Species: | M. pinthous
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Moschoneura pinthous | |
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Moschoneura is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. It contains only one species, Moschoneura pinthous, the pinthous mimic white, which is found in northern South America.
Adults mimic Scada karschina and other Ithomiini butterfly species.[2]
Subspecies[]
The following subspecies are recognised:[1]
- M. p. pinthous (Suriname)
- M. p. methymna (Godart, 1819) (Brazil)
- M. p. cyra (Doubleday, 1844) (Brazil: Bahia)
- M. p. ela (Hewitson, 1877) (Ecuador)
- M. p. ithomia (Hewitson, 1867) (Ecuador, Peru)
- M. p. amelina (Hopffer, 1874) (Peru)
- M. p. proxima (Röber, 1924) (Brazil: Amazonas)
- M. p. patricia Lamas, 2004 (Peru)
- M. p. monica Lamas, 2004 (Peru)
Gallery[]
M. p. pinthous
M. p. amelina male
M. p. amelina female
M. p. ithomia
M. p. methymna
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Moschoneura. |
- ^ a b Moschoneura, funet.fi
- ^ Tol Web
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Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1758
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Dismorphiinae
- Pieridae of South America
- Monotypic butterfly genera
- Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
- Pieridae genera
- Pieridae stubs