Euptoieta
Appearance
Euptoieta | |
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Euptoieta claudia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Tribe: | Argynnini |
Genus: | Euptoieta (Doubleday, 1848) |
Species | |
See text |
Euptoieta is a genus of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae found in the Neotropical ecological zone.
Species
[edit]Listed alphabetically:[1]
- Euptoieta bogotana (Staudinger, 1885)
- Euptoieta claudia (Cramer, 1775) – variegated fritillary
- Euptoieta hegesia (Cramer, 1779) – Mexican fritillary
- Euptoieta hortensia (Blanchard, 1852)
- Euptoieta perdistincta (Hall, 1930)
- Euptoieta poasina (Schaus, 1913)
- Euptoieta sunides (Hewitson, 1877)
- Euptoieta thekla (Hall, 1919)
References
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- ^ "Euptoieta Doubleday, [1848]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Gerardo Lamas (edited by) (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Gainesville, FL. ISBN 0-945417-28-4