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Genus of butterflies

Anthanassa

Blackened crescent Anthanassa otanes fulviplaga, Panama

Orange-patched crescent Anthanassa drusilla drusilla male, Panama Mariposa Lunita Tejana (Texan crescentspot butterfly) Anthanassa texana ssp. texana, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Melitaeini
Genus:	Anthanassa Scudder, 1875
Synonyms
Tritanassa Forbes, 1945 Phyciodes

Anthanassa is a genus of North and South American butterflies of the family Nymphalidae found from the United States to South America. One authority places this genus as a subgenus of Phyciodes.

Species

Listed alphabetically:

Anthanassa acesas (Hewitson, 1864)
Anthanassa annulata Higgins, 1981
Anthanassa ardys (Hewitson, 1864) – Ardys crescent, ardent crescent
Anthanassa argentea (Godman & Salvin, ) – chestnut crescent
Anthanassa atronia (Bates, 1866) – brown crescent
Anthanassa crithona (Salvin, 1871) – crithona crescent
Anthanassa drusilla (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – orange-patched crescent
Anthanassa dracaena (C. & R. Felder, ) – notched crescent
Anthanassa drymaea (Godman & Salvin, 1878) – weak-banded crescent
Anthanassa frisia (Poey, 1832) – Cuban crescentspot, Cuban crescent
- Anthanassa frisia tulcis (H.W. Bates, 1864) – pale-banded crescent
Anthanassa nebulosa (Godman & Salvin, 1878) – blurry crescent
Anthanassa otanes (Hewitson, 1864) – Otanes crescent, cloud-forest crescent, Blackened crescent
Anthanassa ptolyca (Bates, 1864) – black crescent
Anthanassa sitalces (Godman & Salvin, ) – montane crescent, pine crescent
Anthanassa sosis (Godman & Salvin, 1878)
Anthanassa texana (Edwards, 1863) – Texan crescent

References

^ Glassberg, J. (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America Sunstreak Books, pp. 89-91.
"Anthanassa Scudder, 1875" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Taxon identifiers
Anthanassa	Wikidata: Q4771456 Wikispecies: Anthanassa BioLib: 685864 BOLD: 3865 BugGuide: 128190 ButMoth: 1873.0 CoL: 9227C EoL: 18934 GBIF: 1902644 iNaturalist: 132340 IRMNG: 1199668 ITIS: 777616 LepIndex: 153737 NCBI: 113289 Open Tree of Life: 907708

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