Diaphanos

Diaphanos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Satyrinae
Genus:	Diaphanos Adams & Bernard, 1981
Type species
Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981
Species
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Diaphanos is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. There are three recognised species in the Neotropics, and one undescribed subspecies of D. huberi. ^[1]

Species

• Diaphanos curvignathos Viloria, 1994
• Diaphanos fuscus Viloria, 1994
• Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981

Taxonomy

The type species by original designation is Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981 from the Cordillera de Merida in Venezuela. ^[2] It was originally considered to be a monobasic genus, but two additional species were described from separate mountaintops in the Venezuelan Andes. ^[3]

References

1. Gerardo Lamas 2004 Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. CheckList: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea Scientific Publishers.
2. Adams & Bernard (1981) Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 71:351
3. Viloria, A. L. (1994) "High Andean Pronophilini from Venezuela: Two new species of Diaphanos (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)" Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48:180-189

• Adams, M.J. & G.I. Bernard, 1981, Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society71: 343-373.