Nymphidium
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| N. azanoides occidentalis Panama | |
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| Genus: | Nymphidium Fabricius, 1807
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Nymphidium is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
Some Nymphidium are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of which being now and then preponderant. The wings have a normal shape without indentations, tail appendages, lobing or coiling. The larva is shaped like a woodlouse, hunched, green, sometimes with a yellow lateral streak, the neck organ out of a transverse row of green spikes or bristles. It has a guard of ants. The pupa is green, fastened by a belt-like thread. The butterflies rest on the under surface of leaves and are chased up by beating the bushes, whereupon they fly like Geometridae for some paces, in order to hide themselves again. The swarming-time seems to be dawn, or the early morning, but the author came across them yet in the sunshine of the morning on blossoms. They are easily taken and fly low.[1]
Species[]
- (Boisduval, 1836) present in French Guiana, Brazil
- Callaghan, 1988 present in Colombia
- Hewitson, [1853] present in Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil
- Callaghan, 1985 present in Brazil
- Butler, 1867 present in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil
- Hewitson, [1853] present in French Guiana, Guyana, Brazil
- Staudinger, [1887] present in Colombia
- (Fabricius, 1787) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia
- Brévignon, 1999 present in French Guiana
- (Linnaeus, 1758) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil
- Stichel, 1910 present in Ecuador, Bolivia
- Bates, 1868 present in Ecuador
- Bates, 1867 present in Brazil
- Gallard, 2008
- Callaghan, 1985 present in Suriname
- Bates, 1868 present in Colombia, Brazil
- Gallard & Brévignon, 1989 present in French Guiana
- Godman & Salvin, 1878 present in Costa Rica, Panama
- Gallard, 2008
- Stichel, 1911 present in Peru
- Callaghan, 1985 present in Ecuador
- Schaus, 1913 present in Costa Rica, Colombia
- (Hübner, [1806]) present in Colombia, Peru, Brazil
- (Stoll, 1790) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Peru, Brazil
- Callaghan, 1985 present in French Guiana, Brazil
- (Cramer, 1775) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
- (Stoll, 1782) present in French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela
- Hewitson, 1865 present in Brazil
- Talbot, 1928 present in Brazil
- Bates, 1865 present in Panama, Venezuela, Brazil
- Hewitson, 1865 present in Amazon basin
- Hewitson, 1869 present in Honduras, Panama
- Stichel, 1910 present in Brazil, Peru
- Callaghan, 1999 present in Panama
- Kaye, 1925 present in Trinidad and Tobago
- Callaghan, 1999 present in Trinidad and Tobago
- Seitz, 1917 present in Brazil
Sources[]
- Nymphidium on Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
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- Nymphidiini
- Butterfly genera
- Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius