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(Redirected from Taygetina banghaasi) Genus of butterflies

Taygetina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Satyrini
Subtribe: Euptychiina
Genus: Taygetina
Forster, 1964
Species: T. banghaasi
Binomial name
Taygetina banghaasi
(Weymer, 1910)

Taygetina is a monotypic butterfly genus of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The species in Coeruleotaygetis have been included in Taygetina. Its one species, Taygetina banghaasi, is found in the Neotropical realm.

References

  1. Matos-Maraví P.F., Peña C., Willmott K.R., Freitas A.V.L., Wahlberg N. 2012. Systematics and evolutionary history of butterflies in the “Taygetis clade” (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina): Towards a better understanding of Neotropical biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66:54–68. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.005 as the former is a junior synonym of the latter.
  2. "Taygetina Forster, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Taxon identifiers
Taygetina


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