Cethosia

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Cethosia
Orange Lacewing, Cairns.jpg
Cethosia penthesilea paksha
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Cethosia biblis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Acraeini
Genus: Cethosia
Fabricius, 1807
Species

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Synonyms
  • AlazoniaHübner, [1819]
  • EugrammaBillberg, 1820

Cethosia, commonly called the lacewings, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae. They are found mainly in southeastern Asia as far south as Australia.

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Species

Listed alphabetically: [1]

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References

  1. "Cethosia Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms