Brangas

Brangas
Brangas getus, Bolivia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Subfamily:	Theclinae
Tribe:	Eumaeini
Genus:	Brangas Hübner, 1819

Brangas is a genus of hairstreaks in the butterfly family Lycaenidae, found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. There are about 16 described species in Brangas. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

These species belong to the genus Brangas: ^[1]

• Brangas caranus (Stoll, 1780) - western Ecuador to French Guiana, south to southern Brazil
• Brangas carthaea (Hewitson, 1868) - Mexico to western Ecuador
• Brangas coccineifrons (Godman & Salvin, 1887) - Mexico to western Ecuador
• Brangas dydimaon (Cramer, 1777) - Amazonian Region
• Brangas felderi (Goodson, 1945) - Colombia to Peru
• Brangas getus (Fabricius, 1787) - Mexico to Argentina, Paraguay, and southern Brazil
• Brangas insolitus Bálint & Faynel, 2008 - Ecuador to Peru
• Brangas moserorum Bálint & Faynel, 2008 - Paraguay and southern Brazil
• Brangas neildonatus Bálint & Faynel, 2008 - Venezuelan northern coast.
• Brangas neora (Hewitson, 1867) - Mexico to southern Brazil
• Brangas polonus Bálint, 2008 - Peru to Bolivia
• Brangas rambutorum Bálint & Faynel, 2008 - Venezuela and Colombia in dry forest.
• Brangas rita (Goodson, 1945) - Costa Rica to western Colombia and Ecuador
• Brangas silumena (Hewitson, 1867) - Paraguay and Brazil
• Brangas teucria (Hewitson, 1868) - Amazonian Region
• Brangas torfrida (Hewitson, 1867) - Neotropics, Amazonian and Atlantic regions

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  Brangas neora, México
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  Brangas silumena, Brasil
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  Brangas rambutorum, Colombia

References

1. Martins, Ananda Regina Pereira; Duarte, Marcelo; Robbins, Robert K. (2019). "Phylogenetic Classification of the Atlides Section of the Eumaeini (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)". Zootaxa. 4563 (1): zootaxa.4563.1.6. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4563.1.6. hdl:10088/95787. PMID   31716556 . Retrieved 2024-12-06.
2. Savela, Markku. "Lepidoptera and some other life forms, Brangas Hübner, 1819" . Retrieved 2024-12-07.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Brangas at iNaturalist