''Dagon'' is a genus of South American
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
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 have a red ...
.
Species
* ''
Dagon pusilla''
Salvin, 1869
* ''
Dagon catula''
Hopffer, 1874 – Catula crescent
* ''
Dagon morena''
Röber, 1913
References
"''Dagon'' Higgins, 1981"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' (Archived by WebCite at https://web.archive.org/web/20090212214947/http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/nymphalinae/dagon/index.html
Melitaeini
Nymphalidae of South America
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Robert P. Higgins
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