Methona

Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Methona
Methona confusa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Ithomiini
Genus: Methona
Doubleday, [1847]
Species

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Synonyms
  • Gelotophye d'Almeida, 1940

Methona is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Edward Doubleday in 1847. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.

Species

Arranged alphabetically:[1]

  • Methona confusa Butler, 1873
  • Methona curvifascia Weymer, 1883
  • Methona grandior (Forbes, 1944)
  • Methona maxima (Forbes, 1944)
  • Methona megisto C. & R. Felder, 1860
  • Methona singularis (Staudinger, [1884])
  • Methona themisto (Hübner, 1818)

References

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Wikispecies has information related to Methona.
  1. ^ "Methona Doubleday, [1847]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Taxon identifiers
Methona


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