Hestina nicevillei

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Hestina nicevillei
Hestina nicevillei by Davidraju from Himachal Pradesh.jpg
In Himachal Pradesh, India
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Hestina
Species:
H. nicevillei
Binomial name
Hestina nicevillei
(Moore, [1895])
Synonyms
  • Parhestina nicevilleiMoore, [1895]
  • Diagora nicevillei
  • Parhestina jermyniDruce, 1911
  • Hestina ouvradiRiley, 1939

Hestina nicevillei, the scarce siren, is a species of siren butterfly (Apaturinae) found in the western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal and to China and Vietnam. [1] [2] [3]

Subspecies

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References

  1. "Hestina Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Hestina nicevillei Moore, 1895 – Scarce Siren". Butterflies of India. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  3. Omoto, Keiichi; Funahashi, Akio (2004). "A new subspecies of Hestina nicevillei (Moore, 1896) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) discovered in Northern Vietnam". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 55 (3): 203–208 via BioStor.