Elzunia is a
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
genus of
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 ...
, subfamily
Danainae
Danainae is a subfamily of the family Nymphalidae, the brush-footed butterflies. It includes the Daniadae, or milkweed butterflies, who lay their eggs on various milkweeds on which their larvae (caterpillars) feed, as well as the clearwing butt ...
, and tribe
Ithomiini
Ithomiini is a butterfly tribe in the nymphalid subfamily Danainae. It is sometimes referred to as the tribe of clearwing butterflies or glasswing butterflies. Some authors consider the group to be a subfamily (Ithomiinae). These butterflies are ...
.
List of species
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Elzunia humboldt
''Elzunia humboldt'' is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, subfamily Danainae, tribus Ithomiini.
Description
''Elzunia humboldt'' has a wingspan of about . This species is quite variable depending on the subspecies. The uppersides ...
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(Latreille, 1809)
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Elzunia pavonii''
(Butler, 1873)
References
''Elzunia'' Bryk, 1937at BioLib.cz
''Elzunia'' Bryk, 1937at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Ithomiini
Nymphalidae of South America
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Felix Bryk
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