Catonephele
Catonephele is a nymphalid butterfly genus found in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies.
| Catonephele | |
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| Catonephele acontius | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Epicaliini |
| Genus: | Catonephele Hübner, [1819] |
| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Epicalia Boisduval 1870 (non Doubleday, 1844: preoccupied) | |
Species
Listed alphabetically:[1]
- Catonephele acontius (Linnaeus, 1771) – Acontius firewing
- Catonephele antinoe (Godart, [1824]) – Antinoe catone
- Catonephele chromis (Doubleday, [1848]) – cloud-forest catone
- Catonephele cortesi Maza, 1982 – West-Mexican catone
- Catonephele mexicana Jenkins & Maza, 1985 – Guatemalan catone
- Catonephele numilia (Cramer, [1775]) – blue-frosted banner, blue-frosted catone, Grecian shoemaker, or stoplight catone
- Catonephele nyctimus (Westwood, 1850)
- Catonephele orites Stichel, 1899 – orange-banded shoemaker butterfly
- Catonephele sabrina (Hewitson, 1851)
- Catonephele salacia (Hewitson, 1851)
- Catonephele salambria (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Salambria banner
C. acontius
C. numilia
Orange-banded shoemaker butterfly (C. orites).JPG.webp)
C. antinoe
Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil_underside.JPG.webp)
Underside C. antinoe
Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
References
Media related to Catonephele at Wikimedia Commons
- Catonephele at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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