Cithaerias

Cithaerias
Cithaerias andromeda esmeralda
Cithaerias pireta, Costa Rica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Haeterini
Genus:	Cithaerias Hübner, [1819][1]
Synonyms
Callitaera Butler, 1868

Cithaerias is a Neotropical butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.

Species

• Cithaerias andromeda (Fabricius, 1775)
• Cithaerias aurora (C. Felder & R. Felder) including Cithaerias phantoma (Fassl, 1922)
• Cithaerias aurorina
• Cithaerias azurina
• Cithaerias bandusia
• Cithaerias cliftoni
• Cithaerias esmeralda
• Cithaerias pireta (Stoll, [1780])
• Cithaerias pyritosa (Zikán, 1942)
• Cithaerias pyropina (Salvin & Godman, 1868)
• Cithaerias songoana

References

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

• Penz, C.M., Alexander, L.G. & Devries, P.J. 2014. Revised species definitions and nomenclature of the rose colored Cithaerias butterflies (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Zootaxa 3873(5): 541–559.
• Penz, C.M., 2021. Revised species definitions and nomenclature of the blue and purple/rose Cithaerias butterflies (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Zootaxa 4963 (2): 293–316.
• Nymphalidae.net taxonomic list