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| Northern crescent, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Nymphalinae |
| Tribe: | Melitaeini |
| Subtribe: | Phyciodina |
| Genus: | Phyciodes Hübner, |
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Phiciodes | |
Phyciodes, the crescents or crescent spots (like some related genera) is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Species
In alphabetical order:
- Phyciodes batesii (Reakirt, 1865) – tawny crescent
- Phyciodes cocyta (Cramer, ) – northern crescent
- Phyciodes graphica (R. Felder, 1869) – Vesta crescent
- Phyciodes mylitta (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – Mylitta crescent
- Phyciodes orseis W. H. Edwards, 1871 – Orseis crescent
- Phyciodes pallescens (R. Felder, 1869) – Mexican crescent
- Phyciodes pallida or Phyciodes pallidus (W. H. Edwards, 1864) – pale crescent or pallid crescentspot
- Phyciodes picta (W. H. Edwards, 1865) – painted crescent
- Phyciodes phaon (W. H. Edwards, 1864) – Phaon crescent
- Phyciodes pulchella (Boisduval, 1852) – field crescent
- Phyciodes texana (W. H. Edwards, 1863) – Texan crescent
- Phyciodes tharos (Drury, ) – pearl crescent
References
- ITIS.gov
- Phyciodes, Encyclopedia of Life
- "Phyciodes Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Phyciodes, BugGuide
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