Euptera

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Euptera
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Euptera elabontas
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Adoliadini
Genus: Euptera
Staudinger, 1891 [1]
Species

Numerous, see text

Euptera is an Afrotropical genus of brush-footed butterflies.

Species

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References

  1. "Euptera Staudinger, 1891" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms