Abisara

Abisara
Abisara echerius (top left) Abisara bifasciata (top right)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Subfamily:	Nemeobiinae
Genus:	Abisara C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860 [1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
SospitaHewitson, 1861 SosibiaFruhstorfer, 1914

Abisara is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae, found in Africa and Southeast Asia. ^[2] The broad genus was split as it was polyphyletic and separated in 2015. Several species were moved to Archigenes . ^[3]

Most species in the genus have the common name Judy.

Species

• Abisara abnormis
• Abisara bifasciata
• Abisara burnii
• Abisara caeca
• Abisara cameroonensis
• Abisara chelina
• Abisara delicata
• Abisara dewitzi
• Abisara echerius
• Abisara freda
• Abisara fylla
• Abisara fylloides
• Abisara gerontes
• Abisara geza
• Abisara intermedia
• Abisara kausambi
• Abisara neavei
• Abisara rogersi
• Abisara rutherfordii
• Abisara saturata
• Abisara sobrina
• Abisara talantus
• Abisara tantalus

References

1. Abisara at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
2. Brower, Andrew V. Z. (8 March 2010). "Abisara C. Felder & R. Felder 1860". Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
3. Espeland, Marianne; Hall, Jason P.W.; DeVries, Philip J.; Lees, David C.; Cornwall, Mark; Hsu, Yu-Feng; Wu, Li-Wei; Campbell, Dana L.; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger; Salzman, Shayla; Ruehr, Sophie; Lohman, David J.; Pierce, Naomi E. (2015). "Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 93: 296–306. Bibcode:2015MolPE..93..296E. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.006 . PMID   26265256.

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 61