Hyalenna | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Tribe: | Ithomiini |
Genus: | Hyalenna Forbes, 1942 |
Species | |
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Hyalenna is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies described by William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes in 1942. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.
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