Castilia (butterfly)

Castilia
White-dotted crescent Castilia ofella, Panama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Nymphalinae
Tribe:	Melitaeini
Genus:	Castilia Higgins, 1981

Castilia is a genus of butterflies of the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America. ^[1]

Species

Listed alphabetically: ^{[1] [2]}

• Castilia angusta (Hewitson, 1868) – angusta crescent
• Castilia castilla (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
• Castilia chiapaensis (Beutelspacher, 1990) – Chiapas crescent
• Castilia chinantlensis (de la Maza, 1978) – Chinantlan crescent, pie-slice crescent
• Castilia eranites (Hewitson, 1857) – smudged crescent
• Castilia fulgora (Godman & Salvin, 1878)
• Castilia griseobasalis (Röber, 1913) – gray-based crescent
• Castilia guaya (Hall, 1929)
• Castilia myia (Hewitson, 1864) – Mayan crescent
• Castilia neria (Hewitson, 1869)
• Castilia ofella (Hewitson, 1864) – white-dotted crescent
• Castilia perilla (Hewitson, 1852)
• Castilia nortbrundii (Weeks, 1901)

References

1. "Castilia Higgins, 1981" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Glassberg, J. (2007) A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America, Sunstreak Books, pp. 86-87.

External links

• Images representing Castilia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life