Lethe nicetas

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Yellow woodbrown
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Lethe nicetas in Lepidoptera Indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Lethe
Species:
L. nicetas
Binomial name
Lethe nicetas
(Hewitson, 1863) [1]

Lethe nicetas , the yellow woodbrown, is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm (Sikkim, Assam, Manipur) [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Hewitson, 1863 Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson
  2. ↑ "Lethe Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ↑ Weymer, G. 1910-1911. 4. Familie: Satyridae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Stuttgart, A. Kernen. 5: 185-225.


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