Nessaea

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Nessaea
Nessaea hewitsoni Museum specimen. Brazil.
Nessaea hewitsoni Museum specimen. Brazil.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked) Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Tribe: Epicaliini
Genus: Nessaea
Hübner, 1819
Type species
Papilio ancaeus
Linnaeus, 1758

Nessaea is a genus of nymphalid butterfly found in the Neotropical Ecozone.

[edit] Images

Nessaea obrina Female. Upperside.

Nessaea obrina Male. Upperside.

Nessaea obrina Underside.

Nessaea aglaura

[edit] References

Vane-Wright, R.I. 1979. The coloration, identification and phylogeny of Nessaea butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 38: 27–56.


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