''Higginsius'' is a 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 ...

from north-eastern

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

in the family Nymphalidae."''Higginsius'' Hemming, 1964"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

Species

*'' Higginsius fasciata'' (Hopffer, 1874) – fasciata crescent (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia) *'' Higginsius miriam'' (Dognin, 1888) (Ecuador, Colombia)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q11703636 Melitaeini Nymphalidae of South America Butterfly genera Taxa named by Francis Hemming