Asterocampa, commonly called hackberry butterflies or American emperors, is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
butterflies in the family
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
found mainly in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Species
The ''celtis'' species group:
* ''
Asterocampa celtis
''Asterocampa celtis'', the hackberry emperor, is a North American butterfly that belongs to the brushfooted butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It gets its name from the hackberry tree ('' Celtis occidentalis'' and others in the genus ''Celtis'') upo ...
''
(Boisduval & Le Conte, 1835) – hackberry emperor
* ''
Asterocampa leilia''
(Edwards, 1874) – Empress Leilia or desert hackberry
The ''clyton'' species group:
* ''
Asterocampa clyton
''Asterocampa clyton'', the tawny emperor, is a species of brush-footed butterfly. It is native to North America, especially the eastern half from Canada to northern Mexico. The tawny emperor should not be mistaken for a very similar ''Asterocamp ...
''
(Boisduval & Le Conte, 1835) – tawny emperor
* ''
Asterocampa idyja''
(Geyer, 1828) – dusky emperor
External links
"''Asterocampa'' Röber, 1916"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Apaturinae
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Julius Röber
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