Diaphanos

Diaphanos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Genus: Diaphanos
Adams & Bernard, 1981
Type species
Diaphanos huberi
Adams & Bernard, 1981
species

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Diaphanos is a genus of butterflies in the Nymphalidae family. There are three recognised species in the Neotropics, and one undescribed subspecies of D. huberi.[1]

Species

Taxonomy

Type species by original designation Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981 from the Cordillera de Merida in Venezuela.[2] It was originally considered to be a monobasic genus, but two additional species were described from separate mountaintops in the Venezuelan Andes [3]

References

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  1. Gerardo Lamas 2004 Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. CheckList: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea Scientific Publishers.
  2. Adams & Bernard (1981) Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 71:351
  3. Viloria, A. L. (1994) High andean pronophilini from Venezuela: Two new species of Diaphanos (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48:180-189


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