''Hermeuptychia'' is a genus of
satyrid 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 ...
found in the
Neotropical realm
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 ...
. They are a widespread, cryptic genus, with
Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I
Cytochrome c oxidase I (COX1) also known as mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase I (MT-CO1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''MT-CO1'' gene. In other eukaryotes, the gene is called ''COX1'', ''CO1'', or ''COI''. Cytochrom ...
species delineation methods implying much greater species diversity than currently recognised.
Species
The genus contains the following species, listed alphabetically:
"''Hermeuptychia'' Forster, 1964"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*''Hermeuptychia atalanta
''Hermeuptychia atalanta'' is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1867. It is found in Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, ...
'' (Butler, 1867)
*''Hermeuptychia cucullina
''Hermeuptychia cucullina'' is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Gustav Weymer in 1911. It is found in Bolivia
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'' (Weymer, 1911)
*''Hermeuptychia fallax
''Hermeuptychia fallax'' is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Baron Cajetan von Felder and his son Rudolf Felder in 1862. It is found in Peru and Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative R ...
'' (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
*''Hermeuptychia gisella
''Hermeuptychia'' is a genus of Satyrinae, satyrid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm. They are a widespread, cryptic genus, with Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I species delineation methods implying much greater species diversity than curr ...
'' (Hayward, 1957)
*''Hermeuptychia harmonia
''Hermeuptychia harmonia'' is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1867. It is found from Costa Rica to Ecuador and Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, ...
'' (Butler, 1867)
*''Hermeuptychia hermes
''Hermeuptychia hermes'', the Hermes satyr, is a species of ''Hermeuptychia'' butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from southern Texas through Mexico to Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and Mato Grosso do Sul), Suriname and Bolivia. The habitat ...
'' (Fabricius, 1775)
*''Hermeuptychia hermybius
''Hermeuptychia hermybius'' is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It has been recorded in southern North America from the lower Rio Grande Valley region of Texas, along the Rio Grande from Laredo to the Gulf coast. It is also found in neighbo ...
'' Grishin, 2014
*''Hermeuptychia intricata
''Hermeuptychia intricata'' is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It has been recorded from the coastal plains of the eastern United States and is currently documented from Texas, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina
)''Animis opibusque para ...
'' Grishin, 2014
*''Hermeuptychia maimoune
''Hermeuptychia maimoune'' is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1870. It is found in Peru
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'' (Butler, 1870)
*''Hermeuptychia pimpla
''Hermeuptychia pimpla'' is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Baron Cajetan von Felder and his son Rudolf Felder in 1862. It is found in Peru
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'' (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
*''Hermeuptychia sosybius
''Hermeuptychia sosybius'', the Carolina satyr, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the United States from southern New Jersey south along the coast to southern Florida, west to south-eastern Kansas, central Oklahoma and ce ...
'' (Fabricius, 1793)
References
Euptychiina
Nymphalidae of South America
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Walter Forster (entomologist)
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