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Taygetina

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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.[1] Its one species, Taygetina banghaasi, is found in the Neotropical realm.[2]

References

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  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