Euryphura

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Euryphura
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Plate accompanying Otto Staudinger's original description. Figure 3 is Euryphura nobilis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Adoliadini
Genus: Euryphura
Staudinger, [1891]
Synonyms
  • CrenidomimasKarsch, 1894
  • MetacrenisButler, 1895
  • EuryphuranaHecq, 1992(disputed)

Euryphura is a butterfly genus in the subfamily Limenitidinae. The species of this genus are found in the Afrotropical realm.

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Species

Listed alphabetically within species groups: [1]

Former species

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References

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