''Aphantopus'' is a butterfly genus of the

Satyrinae The Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the browns, are a subfamily of the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies). They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known divers ...

. The genus is confined to the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

Species

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Aphantopus arvensis ''Aphantopus arvensis'' is a butterfly found in the Palearctic that belongs to the browns family. The species was first described by Charles Oberthur in 1876. It is endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined ...

'' (Oberthür, 1876) (western

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

) **''Aphantopus arvensis arvensis'' **''Aphantopus arvensis campana'' Leech, 1892 (central China) **''Aphantopus arvensis deqenensis'' Li, ?1995 *''

Aphantopus hyperantus The ringlet (''Aphantopus hyperantus'') is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is only one of the numerous "ringlet" butterflies in the tribe Satyrini. Range The ringlet is a widely distributed species found throughout much of the Pale ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - ringlet **''Aphantopus hyperantus abaensis'' Yoshino, 2003 **''Aphantopus hyperantus alpheois'' Fruhstorfer, 1908 (

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...

) **''Aphantopus hyperantus arctica'' (Seitz, 1909) (northern Europe) **''Aphantopus hyperantus bieti'' (Oberthür, 1884) (

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

, northern

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

) **''Aphantopus hyperantus luti'' Evans, 1915 (

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

) **''Aphantopus hyperantus ocellana'' (Butler, 1882) **''Aphantopus hyperantus sajana'' (O. Bang-Haas, 1906) **''Aphantopus hyperantus sibiricus'' Obraztsov, 1936 (

and the

Altai Mountains The Altai Mountains (), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia, Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob River, Ob have their headwaters. The m ...

) *'' Aphantopus maculosa'' (Leech, 1890) (China)

References

"''Aphantopus'' Wallengren, 1853"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

External links

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Images representing ''Aphantopus''
at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Images representing ''Aphantopus''
at Encyclopedia of Life {{Taxonbar, from=Q773406 Satyrini Butterfly genera Taxa named by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren