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Lethe siderea

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Species of butterfly

Scarce woodbrown
In Lepidoptera Indica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lethe
Species: L. siderea
Binomial name
Lethe siderea
Marshall, 1880

Lethe siderea , the scarce woodbrown, is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm. The species was first described by George Frederick Leycester Marshall in 1880. It is legally protected in India under Schedule II of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972.

Subspecies

  • L. s. siderea Sikkim to West China
  • L. s. kanoi Esaki & Nomura, 1937 Formosa

References

  1. Marshall in Marshall & de Nicéville (1881). "Some new Species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera from the Indian Region". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 49 Pt. II (4): 245-248.
  2. "Lethe Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Weymer, G. 1910-1911. 4. Familie: Satyridae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Stuttgart, A. Kernen. 5: 185-225.
Taxon identifiers
Lethe siderae


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