Tigridia acesta

Tigridia acesta
Tigridia acesta tapajona, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Nymphalini
Genus: Tigridia
Hübner, 1819
Species:
T. acesta
Binomial name
Tigridia acesta
Synonyms

Papilio acesta Linnaeus, 1758

Tigridia acesta, the tiger beauty, is a butterfly of the monotypic genus Tigridia in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.[1]

It is sometimes placed in the tribe Coeini and sometimes in the tribe Nymphalini.

Subspecies

  • Tigridia acesta acesta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mexico)
  • Tigridia acesta columbina (Neustetter, 1929) (Colombia)
  • Tigridia acesta fulvescens (Butler, 1873) (Peru, Ecuador)
  • Tigridia acesta latifascia (Butler, 1873) (Colombia)
  • Tigridia acesta ochracea (Bryk, 1953) (Peru)
  • Tigridia acesta tapajona (Butler, 1873) (Brazil)

References

  1. ↑ "Tigridia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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