Taygetis

Taygetis
Taygetis virgilia, Trinidad
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Satyrinae
Tribe:	Satyrini
Subtribe:	Euptychiina
Genus:	Taygetis Hübner, [1819]

Taygetis is a genus of satyrid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.

Taxonomy and evolution

The genus appeared as polyphyletic, ^[1] with Taygetis kerea and Taygetis weymeri as part of the butterfly genus Taygetina , whereas Taygetis rectifascia and Taygetis ypthima are related to the genus Pseudodebis . Recently, the "Taygetis ypthima species group" was defined, ^[2] and it includes Taygetis rectifascia , Taygetis ypthima , Taygetis drogoni , and Taygetis fulginia . However, the inclusion of such a species group within the genus Taygetis is unsupported by molecular ^[1] and karyological data. ^[3]

Species

T. tripunctata figure 6

Listed alphabetically: ^{[4] [5]}

• Taygetis acuta Weymer, 1910
• Taygetis angulosa Weymer, 1907
• Taygetis asterie Weymer, 1910
• Taygetis chiquitana Forster, 1964
• Taygetis chrysogone Doubleday, [1849]
• Taygetis cleopatra C. & R. Felder, 1862
• Taygetis drogoni Siewert, Zacca, F.M.S. Dias & Freitas, 2013
• Taygetis echo (Cramer, [1775]) - echo satyr
• Taygetis elegia Weymer, 1910
• Taygetis fulginia d’Almeida, 1922
• Taygetis inambari Miller & Lamas, 1999
• Taygetis inconspicua Draudt, 1931
• Taygetis laches (Fabricius, 1793)
• Taygetis larua C. & R. Felder, 1867
• Taygetis leuctra Butler, 1870
• Taygetis mermeria (Cramer, [1776])
• Taygetis oyapock Brévignon, 2007
• Taygetis rectifascia Weymer, 1907
• Taygetis rufomarginata Staudinger, 1888
• Taygetis servius Weymer, 1910
• Taygetis sosis Hopffer, 1874
• Taygetis sylvia Bates, 1866
• Taygetis thamyra (Cramer, [1779])
• Taygetis tripunctata Weymer, 1907
• Taygetis uncinata Weymer, 1907
• Taygetis uzza Butler, 1869
• Taygetis virgilia (Cramer, [1776])
• Taygetis ypthima (Hübner, 1816)
• Taygetis zippora Butler, 1869

References

1. Matos-Maraví, P.F., Peña, C., Willmott, K.R., Freitas, A.V.L. & Wahlberg, N., 2013: Systematics and evolutionary history of butterflies in the “Taygetis clade” (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina): towards a better understanding of Neotropical biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 66: 54-68: Abstract and full article: doi : 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.005
2. Siewert, R.R., Zacca, T., Dias, F.M.S., Freitas, A.V.L., Mielke, O.H.H. & Casagrande, M.M., 2013: The “'Taygetis ypthima' species group” (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae): taxonomy, variation and description of a new species. Zookeys, 356: 11-29: Abstract and full article: doi : 10.3897/zookeys.356.6481
3. Brown Jr, K.S., Freitas, A.V.L., von Schoultz, B., Saura, A.O. & Saura, A., 2007: Chromosomal evolution of South American frugivorous butterflies in the Satyroid clade (Nymphalidae: Charaxinae, Morphinae and Satyrinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 92: 467-461
4. Lamas, Gerardo, 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea
5. "Taygetis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

• Brevignon, Christian, 2005: Description of new Satyrinae from French Guiana (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). LambillioneaCV sept.: 393-404.