Taygetis mermeria

Taygetis mermeria
Dorsal side - MHNT
Ventral side - MHNT
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Taygetis
Species:
T. mermeria
Binomial name
Taygetis mermeria
(Cramer, [1776])[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio mermeria Cramer, [1776]
  • Faunus tenebrosus Blanchard, [1844]
  • Taygetis mermeria f. crameri Weymer, 1910
  • Taygetis excavata Butler, 1868

Taygetis mermeria, the mermeria wood nymph, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found throughout the Neotropical realm from Mexico to Bolivia. The habitat consists of rainforests and cloudforests.[2]

Subspecies

  • Taygetis mermeria mermeria (Suriname, Bolivia, Brazil: Amazonas)
  • Taygetis mermeria excavata Butler, 1868 (Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras)
  • Taygetis mermeria griseomarginata Miller, 1978 (Mexico)

See also Taygetis mermeria f. crameri Weymer, 1910 [Unknown source, but see Weymer, 1924: 185.[3] (also in german [1]].

References

  1. ^ "Taygetis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes
  3. ^ Weymer, G. (1924). 4. Satyridae. In. The Macrolepidoptera of the world: a systematic account of all the known Macrolepidoptera. (Alternative title: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde: eine Systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge). Seitz, A. (Ed.). Vol. 5: (part 2). pp. 173–283. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.126182.


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