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Parthenos (butterfly)

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Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Clipper butterflies

Parthenos sylvia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Limenitidinae
Genus:	Parthenos Hübner,
Species
Three, see text

Parthenos, the clippers, are a genus of butterflies found in Southeast Asia.

Species

Listed alphabetically:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Parthenos aspila Honrath, 1888	New Guinea clipper	endemic to New Guinea and adjacent islands.
	Parthenos sylvia Cramer, 1776	clipper	widespread, occurring from Assam and Burma to Sri Lanka, Indochina, the Philippines, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
	Parthenos tigrina Vollenhoven, 1866	New Guinea clipper	New Guinea and adjacent islands

References

"Parthenos Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
New Guinea Clipper, Project Noah
New Guinea Clipper, Learn about Butterflies

External links

Images representing Parthenos at EOL
Images representing Parthenos at Bold

Taxon identifiers
Parthenos	Wikidata: Q1757444 AFD: Parthenos BioLib: 128936 BOLD: 7189 CoL: 92JBR EoL: 19778 GBIF: 1897792 iNaturalist: 145627 LepIndex: 161712 NCBI: 191422 Open Tree of Life: 858553

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