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Asterope (butterfly)

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Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Asterope

Asterope batesii specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Biblidinae
Tribe:	Epiphilini
Genus:	Asterope Hübner, 1819
Type species
Oreas sapphira Hübner,
Diversity
Seven species
Synonyms
Callithea Feisthamel, 1835 Callithea Boisduval, 1836 (non Feisthamel, 1835: preoccupied) Cyane Felder, 1861

Asterope is a genus of brush-footed butterflies found in the Neotropical realm (South America).

Asterope marki davisii, underside

Species

Listed alphabetically:

Asterope adamsi Lathy
Asterope batesii (Hewitson, 1850) – Bates' asterope
Asterope buckleyi (Hewitson, 1869)
Asterope degandii Hewitson, 1858) – Hewitson's glory
Asterope fassli Röber
Asterope freyja Röber
Asterope leprieuri (Feisthamel, 1835) – Leprieur's glory
Asterope lugens Druce
Asterope markii (Hewitson, 1857) – dotted glory
Asterope optima (Butler, 1869)
Asterope salvini Staudinger
Asterope sapphira (Hübner, )
Asterope whitelyi Salvin, 1869

References

Asterope at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Asterope, Biolib

Jenkins, D. W. 1987 Neotropical Nymphalidae VI. Revision of Asterope (=Callithea Auct.). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 114, 1-66

External links

TOL

Taxon identifiers
Asterope	Wikidata: Q2714434 Wikispecies: Asterope BioLib: 414553 BOLD: 274149 ButMoth: 3021.0 CoL: 9235H EoL: 14469 GBIF: 1896877 iNaturalist: 488465 ITIS: 656007 LepIndex: 158730 NCBI: 442283 Open Tree of Life: 5028637 WoRMS: 127513

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