Heteropsis (butterfly)

Heteropsis
H. vola, Madagascar
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Satyrinae
Tribe:	Elymniini
Subtribe:	Mycalesina
Genus:	Heteropsis Westwood, 1850
Type species
Heteropsis drepana Westwood, 1850
Diversity
About 60 species
Synonyms
HenotesiaButler, 1879 HoulbertiaOberthür, 1916 MasouraHemming, 1964 SmithiaMabille, [1880] GallieniaOberthür, 1916 AdmiratioHemming, 1964

male H. avaratra

female H. avaratra

female H. avaratra

Heteropsis is an Afrotropical butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

• Heteropsis adolphei (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
• Heteropsis alaokola (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis anceps (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis andasibe Lees, 2003
• Heteropsis andravahana (Mabille, 1878)
• Heteropsis anganavo (Ward, 1871)
• Heteropsis angolensis Kielland, 1994
• Heteropsis angulifascia (Butler, 1879)
• Heteropsis ankaratra (Ward, 1870)
• Heteropsis ankoma (Mabille, 1878)
• Heteropsis ankova (Ward, 1870)
• Heteropsis antahala (Ward, 1872)
• Heteropsis avaratra Lees & Kremen, 2016
• Heteropsis avelona (Ward, 1870)
• Heteropsis bicristata (Mabille, 1878)
• Heteropsis centralis Aurivillius, 1903
• Heteropsis comorana (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis cowani (Butler, 1880)
• Heteropsis decira (Plötz, 1880)
• Heteropsis difficilis (Mabille, 1880)
• Heteropsis drepana Westwood, 1850
• Heteropsis eliasis (Hewitson, [1866])
• Heteropsis elisi (Karsch, 1893)
• Heteropsis erebennis (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis erebina (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis exocellata (Mabille, [1880])
• Heteropsis fuliginosa (Mabille, 1878)
• Heteropsis iboina (Ward, 1870)
• Heteropsis laeta (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis laetifica (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis mabillei (Butler, 1879)
• Heteropsis maeva (Mabille, 1878)
• Heteropsis masoura (Hewitson, 1875)
• Heteropsis narcissus (Fabricius, 1798)
• Heteropsis narova (Mabille, 1877)
• Heteropsis nigrescens (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
• Heteropsis obscura (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis ochracea Lathy, 1906
• Heteropsis pallida (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis paradoxa (Mabille, [1880])
• Heteropsis parva (Butler, 1879)
• Heteropsis parvidens (Mabille, 1880)
• Heteropsis passandava (Ward, 1871)
• Heteropsis pauper (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis peitho (Plötz, 1880)
• Heteropsis perspicua (Trimen, 1873)
• Heteropsis phaea Karsch, 1890
• Heteropsis sabas (Oberthür, 1923)
• Heteropsis simonsii (Butler, 1877)
• Heteropsis strato (Mabille, 1878)
• Heteropsis strigula (Mabille, 1877)
• Heteropsis subsimilis (Butler, 1879)
• Heteropsis teratia (Karsch, 1894)
• Heteropsis turbans (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis turbata (Butler, 1880)
• Heteropsis ubenica Thurau, 1903
• Heteropsis undulans (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis uniformis (Oberthür, 1916)
• Heteropsis viettei Lees, 2003
• Heteropsis vola (Ward, 1870)
• Heteropsis wardii (Mabille, 1877)

References

1. Monte-Alegre, A.; Rakotomalala, Z.; Leveugle, M.; Coulier, F.; Faure, E. (25 July 2005). "Ecological, vertical and elevational distributions of Heteropsis (Lepidoptera, Satyrinae) in the rainforest of Masoala (NE Madagascar)" . Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 43 (3): 214–222. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2005.00317.x. ISSN   0947-5745.
2. Aduse-Poku, Kwaku; Lees, David C.; BrattströM, Oskar; Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa; Collins, Steve C.; Wahlberg, Niklas; Brakefield, Paul M. (9 June 2016). "Molecular phylogeny and generic-level taxonomy of the widespread palaeotropical ' Heteropsis clade' (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Mycalesina)" . Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 717–731. Bibcode:2016SysEn..41..717A. doi:10.1111/syen.12183. ISSN   0307-6970.

External links

• "Heteropsis Westwood, 1850" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 28