Euryphura

Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Euryphura
Plate accompanying Otto Staudinger's original description. Figure 3 is Euryphura nobilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Adoliadini
Genus: Euryphura
Staudinger, [1891]
Synonyms
  • Crenidomimas Karsch, 1894
  • Metacrenis Butler, 1895
  • Euryphurana Hecq, 1992 (disputed)

Euryphura is a butterfly genus in the subfamily Limenitidinae. The species of this genus are found in the Afrotropical realm.

Species

Listed alphabetically within species groups:[1]

  • Subgenus Euryphura
    • The porphyrion species group
      • Euryphura porphyrion (Ward, 1871)
      • Euryphura togoensis Suffert, 1904
    • The achlys species group
      • Euryphura achlys (Hopffer, 1855)
      • Euryphura chalcis (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
      • Euryphura isuka Stoneham, 1935
      • Euryphura plautilla (Hewitson, 1865)
    • Unknown species group
  • Subgenus Crenidomimas Karsch, 1894

Former species

References

  1. ^ "Euryphura Staudinger, [1891]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

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  • Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 36
Taxon identifiers
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