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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Castniidae |
| Genus: | Prometheus Hübner, 1824 |
Prometheus is a genus of moths within the family Castniidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1824
Taxonomy
Prometheus contains the following species:
- Prometheus annae (Bierdemann, 1935)
- Prometheus cochrus (Fabricius, 1787)
- Prometheus cononia (Westwood, 1877)
- Prometheus ecuadoria (Westwood, 1877)
- Prometheus heliconioides (Herrich-Schäffer, )
- Prometheus mimica (R. Felder, 1874)
- Prometheus personata (Walker, )
- Prometheus polymorpha (Miller, 2008)
- Prometheus simulans (Boisduval, )
- Prometheus zagraea (R. Felder, 1874)
References
- "Genus Prometheus". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
- de Souza Moraes, S.; Duarte, M. (2014). "Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 170 (2): 362–399. doi:10.1111/zoj.12102.
Data related to Prometheus (moth) at Wikispecies
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