Dira (butterfly)

Dira
D. clytus depicted in Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Dirini
Genus:	Dira Hübner, 1819
Diversity
Four species

Dira is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.

Species

• Dira clytus (Linnaeus, 1764)
• Dira jansei (Swierstra, 1911)
• Dira oxylus (Trimen, 1881)
• Dira swanepoeli (van Son, 1939)

External links

• "Dira Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms