Tigridia acesta | |
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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 underside - MHNT
References
- "Tigridia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Taxon identifiers | |
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Tigridia acesta | |
Tigridia |
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