Mazia

Last updated

Mazia
Mazia amazonica (2872476840).jpg
Mazia amazonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus:
Mazia

Higgins, 1981
Species:
M. amazonica
Binomial name
Mazia amazonica
(Bates, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Melitaea amazonica

Mazia is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae that contains the species Mazia amazonica found in South America. [1]

Contents

Subspecies

Related Research Articles

<i>Battus polydamas</i> Species of butterfly

Battus polydamas, also known as the gold rim swallowtail, the Polydamas swallowtail or the tailless swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 10th edition of Systema Naturae, published in 1758.

<i>Morpho lympharis</i> Species of butterfly

Morpho lympharis, the Lympharis morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Peru and Bolivia.

<i>Pereute leucodrosime</i> Species of butterfly

Pereute leucodrosime, the red banded pereute, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae.

<i>Perrhybris pamela</i> Species of butterfly

Perrhybris pamela, the Pamela, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama, south to Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This species breeds in lowland rainforest at altitudes between sea level and about 900 metres.

<i>Mimoides ariarathes</i> Species of butterfly

Mimoides ariarathes is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is native to South America.

<i>Enantia melite</i> Species of butterfly

Enantia melite is a species of butterfly that is found from Central America to the Amazon Basin. It has a wingspan of 48–52 millimetres (1.9–2.0 in), and is very variable. It lives in cloud forest and transitional forest, at altitudes of 400–1,800 metres (1,300–5,900 ft).

<i>Dismorphia amphione</i> Species of butterfly

Dismorphia amphione, the tiger mimic white, is a species of butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found from Mexico and the Caribbean down to Brazil and Bolivia.

<i>Panacea prola</i> Species of butterfly

Panacea prola, the prola beauty or red flasher, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Costa Rica to southern Brazil, but is most common in the foothills of the eastern Peruvian Andes.

<i>Eurema albula</i> Species of butterfly

Eurema albula, the ghost yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from southern Texas south through the West Indies and mainland tropical Central and South America to Brazil. The habitat consists of tropical forests and second growth.

<i>Phoebis agarithe</i> Species of butterfly

Phoebis agarithe, the large orange sulphur, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Peru north to southern Texas and peninsular Florida. Rare strays can be found up to Colorado, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and New Jersey. The species has also been introduced in Hawaii. The habitat consists of open, tropical lowlands including gardens, pastures, road edges, trails and parks.

<i>Appias drusilla</i> Species of butterfly

Appias drusilla, the Florida white or tropical white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in tropical America from Brazil north to southern peninsular Florida and the Florida Keys and Antilles. It frequently visits coastal Texas and is a rare stray to Nebraska and Colorado. The habitat consists of tropical lowland evergreen or semideciduous forests.

<i>Moschoneura</i> Monotypic butterfly genus in family Pieridae

Moschoneura is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. It contains only one species, Moschoneura pinthous, the pinthous mimic white, which is found in northern South America.

<i>Pseudopieris nehemia</i> Species of butterfly

Pseudopieris nehemia, the clean mimic-white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina. The habitat consists of rainforests and transitional cloudforests.

<i>Phoebis argante</i> Species of butterfly

Phoebis argante, the apricot sulphur or Argante giant sulphur, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae.

<i>Pedaliodes</i> Genus of insects

Pedaliodes is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1867.

<i>Anteos menippe</i> Species of butterfly

Anteos menippe, the great orange tip or orange-tipped angled-sulphur, is a neotropical butterfly of the family Pieridae.

<i>Veladyris</i> Monotypic brush-footed butterfly genus

Veladyris is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Fox in 1945. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It contains only one species, Veladyris pardalis, which is found in Ecuador and Peru.

<i>Hesperocharis nera</i> Species of butterfly

Hesperocharis nera, the Nera white, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in Trinidad, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Suriname, the Guianas, Brazil and Bolivia.

<i>Parides aeneas</i> Species of butterfly

Parides aeneas is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.

<i>Colias flaveola</i> Species of butterfly

Colias flaveola is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Tropical Andes subregion of the Neotropical realm.

References

  1. "Mazia Higgins, 1981" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms