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Species of butterfly

Tigridia acesta
Tigridia acesta tapajona, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Coeini (disputed)
Genus: Tigridia
Hübner, 1819
Species: T. acesta
Binomial name
Tigridia acesta
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms

Papilio acesta Linnaeus, 1758

Tigridia acesta, the tiger beauty, is a butterfly of the monotypic genus Tigridia in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.

It is sometimes placed in the tribe Coeini and sometimes in the tribe Nymphalini.

Subspecies

  • Tigridia acesta acesta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mexico)
  • Tigridia acesta columbina (Neustetter, 1929) (Colombia)
  • Tigridia acesta fulvescens (Butler, 1873) (Peru, Ecuador)
  • Tigridia acesta latifascia (Butler, 1873) (Colombia)
  • Tigridia acesta ochracea (Bryk, 1953) (Peru)
  • Tigridia acesta tapajona (Butler, 1873) (Brazil)
  • Male - MHNT Male - MHNT
  • Male underside - MHNT Male underside - MHNT

References

  1. "Tigridia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Taxon identifiers
Tigridia acesta
Tigridia


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