''Diaphanos'' is a genus of butterflies in the family
Nymphalidae. There are three recognised species in the
Neotropics, and one undescribed subspecies of ''D. huberi''.
[Gerardo Lamas 2004 ''Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. CheckList: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea'' Scientific Publishers.]
Species
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Diaphanos curvignathos''
Viloria, 1994
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Diaphanos fuscus
''Diaphanos'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. There are three recognised species in the Neotropics, and one undescribed subspecies of ''D. huberi''.Gerardo Lamas 2004 ''Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. CheckList: Part 4A Hes ...
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Viloria, 1994
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Diaphanos huberi''
Adams & Bernard, 1981
Taxonomy
The type species by original designation is ''Diaphanos huberi'' Adams & Bernard, 1981 from the
Cordillera de Merida in
Venezuela
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[Adams & Bernard (1981) Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 71:351] It was originally considered to be a
monobasic genus, but two additional species were described from separate mountaintops in the
Venezuelan Andes
The Venezuelan Andes (Spanish: ''Andes Venezolanos'') also simply known as the Andes (Spanish: ''Los Andes'') in Venezuela, are a mountain system that form the northernmost extension of the Andes. They are fully identified, both by their geologic ...
.
[Viloria, A. L. (1994) "High Andean Pronophilini from Venezuela: Two new species of ''Diaphanos'' (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)" ''Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society'' 48:180-189]
References
* , 1981, Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela, ''Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society'' 71: 343-373.
Satyrini
Butterfly genera
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