Taenaris bioculatus

Taenaris bioculatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Taenaris
Species:	T. bioculatus
Binomial name
Taenaris bioculatus (Guérin-Méneville, [1830])[1]
Synonyms
Morpho bioculatus Guérin-Méneville, [1830] Taenaris bioculatus pallida Fruhstorfer, 1905 indra Boisduval, 1832 pallus Fruhstorfer, 1905

Taenaris bioculatus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1830. It is endemic to New Guinea in the Australasian realm[2]

Subspecies

• T. b. bioculatus (Waigeo, Gebe, Salawati, Northwest New Guinea)
• T. b. albius Brooks, 1950 (New Guinea: Arfak Mountains, Weyland Mountains, Kunupi)
• T. b. grisescens Rothschild, 1915 (New Guinea: Snow Mountains)
• T. b. avarea Fruhstorfer, 1916 (Southwest New Guinea)
• T. b. charondas Fruhstorfer, 1911 (New Guinea: Lower Aroa River)
• T. b. charon Staudinger, 1887 (New Guinea: Fischhafen)
• T. b. cameronensis Rothschild, 1916 (New Guinea: Owen Stanley Range)

References

1. Guérin-Méneville, [1830] Crustacés, arachnides et insectes. 319pp, 22pls [lepidoptera 271-286] Voyage Coquille, 2 (2) : pl. 13-17 (1830), : pl. 14bis (1831), : pl. 18-19 (1831), : 271-286, 316-319 [index?] (1838)
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

External links

• Taenaris at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms