Taygetina
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Genus: | Taygetina Forster, 1964
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Species: | T. banghaasi
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Taygetina banghaasi (Weymer, 1910)
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Taygetina is a monotypic butterfly genus of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The species in Coeruleotaygetis have been included in Taygetina.[1] Its one species, Taygetina banghaasi, is found in the Neotropical realm.[2]
References
Wikispecies has information related to Taygetina.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Taygetina Forster, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms