''Fountainea'' 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
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 ...
leaf butterflies. Their wing undersides usually
mimic
MIMIC, known in capitalized form only, is a former simulation computer language developed 1964 by H. E. Petersen, F. J. Sansom and L. M. Warshawsky of Systems Engineering Group within the Air Force Materiel Command at the Wright-Patterson AFB in ...
dead leaves.
This genus honours
Margaret Fountaine
Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine (16 May 1862 – 21 April 1940), was a Victorian era, Victorian lepidopterist (a person interested in butterflies and moths), natural history illustrator, diarist, and traveller who published in The Entomologist's Rec ...
, a renowned entomologist.
Species
There are eight species in the genus:
* ''
Fountainea centaurus''
(Felder & Felder, 1867)
* ''
Fountainea eurypyle''
(C. & R. Felder, 1862) – pointed leafwing
* ''
Fountainea glycerium''
(Doubleday, 1849) – angled leafwing
* ''
Fountainea halice''
(Godart, 1824) – ruddy leafwing
* ''
Fountainea nessus''
(Latreille, 1813) – superb leafwing
* ''
Fountainea nobilis''
(Bates, 1864) – noble leafwing
* ''
Fountainea ryphea''
(Cramer, 1775) – flamingo leafwing
* ''
Fountainea sosippus''
(Hopffer, 1874)
References
"''Fountainea'' Rydon, 1971"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Biolib*Rydon, A.H.B. 1971. The systematics of the Charaxidae (Lepidoptera: Nymphaloidea). ''Entomologists Record'' 83: 219-233, 283-287, 310-316, 336-341, 384-388, 6 figs., 4 plates.
External links
Images. In Japanese but with
binomial names
Nymphalidae of South America
Nymphalidae genera
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