''Cupha'' is a butterfly genus of 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 ha ...

found in the

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and the Australasian realms. The ''Cupha'' species are sharply divided from related genera by two characters: the thread like almost clubless antennae and the fourth subcostal nervure of the forewings finishing in the costal border. Only '' Cirrochroa'' possesses a similarly formed antennae, but it can immediately be separated as only one subcostal nervure branches before the end of the cell and through the position of the fourth nervure. In all the other genera it finishes either in the apex or in the outer border The species have rounded wings and undersides with eye-spots resemble Satyridae. The contained species are:"''Cupha'' Billberg, 1820"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *'' Cupha arias'' C. & R. Felder, 867/small> *'' Cupha crameri'' (Felder, 1860) *'' Cupha erymanthis'' (Drury, 773 *'' Cupha lampetia'' (Linnaeus, 1764) *'' Cupha maeonides'' (Hewitson, 1859) *'' Cupha melichrysos'' (Mathew, 1887) *'' Cupha myronides'' Felder, 1860 *'' Cupha prosope'' (Fabricius, 1775) *'' Cupha aureus'' Samson, 1980

References

*Corbet A.S., Pendlebury H.M., Eliot J.N. 1992. ''The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula'' (4th edn.) Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. *Parsons M. 1999. ''The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea: Their Systematics and Biology''. Academic Press, San Diego.

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Vagrantini Taxa named by Gustaf Johan Billberg Nymphalidae genera {{Heliconiinae-stub