Taygetina

Taygetina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Taygetina; Forster, 1964
Species:	T. banghaasi
Binomial name
	Taygetina banghaasi; (Weymer, 1910)

Taygetina is a monotypic butterfly genus of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The species in Coeruleotaygetis have been included in Taygetina.^[1] Its one species, Taygetina banghaasi, is found in the Neotropical realm.^[2]

References[]

^ Matos-Maraví P.F., Peña C., Willmott K.R., Freitas A.V.L., Wahlberg N. 2012. Systematics and evolutionary history of butterflies in the “Taygetis clade” (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina): Towards a better understanding of Neotropical biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66:54–68. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.005 as the former is a junior synonym of the latter.
^ "Taygetina Forster, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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[1] Matos-Maraví P.F., Peña C., Willmott K.R., Freitas A.V.L., Wahlberg N. 2012. Systematics and evolutionary history of butterflies in the “Taygetis clade” (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina): Towards a better understanding of Neotropical biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66:54–68. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.005 as the former is a junior synonym of the latter.

[2] "Taygetina Forster, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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