Tigridia acesta
Tigridia acesta | |
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T. a. tapajona, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
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Tribe: | Coeini (disputed)
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Genus: | Tigridia Hübner, 1819
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Species: | T. acesta
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Binomial name | |
Tigridia acesta | |
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Papilio acesta Linnaeus, 1758 |
Tigridia acesta, the tiger beauty, is a butterfly of the monotypic genus Tigridia in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.[1]
It is sometimes placed in the tribe Coeini and sometimes in the tribe Nymphalini.
Subspecies[]
- T. a. acesta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mexico)
- T. a. columbina (Neustetter, 1929) (Colombia)
- T. a. fulvescens (Butler, 1873) (Peru, Ecuador)
- T. a. latifascia (Butler, 1873) (Colombia)
- T. a. ochracea (Bryk, 1953) (Peru)
- T. a. tapajona (Butler, 1873) (Brazil)
Male - MHNT
Male underside - MHNT
References[]
- ^ "Tigridia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Categories:
- Coeini
- Butterflies of Central America
- Nymphalidae of South America
- Lepidoptera of Brazil
- Lepidoptera of Colombia
- Lepidoptera of Ecuador
- Butterflies of North America
- Lepidoptera of Peru
- Fauna of the Amazon
- Butterflies described in 1758
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
- Nymphalinae stubs