''Idea'' is a genus of butterflies known as tree nymphs or paper butterflies. The member species are concentrated around

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Sevenia ''Sevenia'', commonly called tree nymphs, is a genus of forest butterflies in the family Nymphalidae that, as larvae, feed on plants of the family Euphorbiaceae. There are fourteen species from continental Africa and two (or three) species from ...

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Species

Listed alphabetically:"''Idea'' Fabricius, 1807"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *'' I. agamarschana'' (C. & R. Felder,

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– Andaman tree-nymph *'' I. blanchardi'' Marchal, 1845 – black-trimmed rice paper *'' I. durvillei'' Boisduval, 1832 *'' I. electra'' (Semper, 1878) – Electra's tree-nymph *'' I. hypermnestra'' (Westwood, 1848) *'' I. iasonia'' or ''I. jasonia'' (Westwood, 1848) – Ceylon tree-nymph *'' I. idea'' (Linnaeus, 1763) – rice paper *'' I. leuconoe'' Erichson, 1834 – paper kite *'' I. lynceus'' (Drury,

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– tree-nymph *'' I. malabarica'' (Moore, 1877) – Malabar tree-nymph *'' I. stolli'' (Moore, 1883) – common tree-nymph *'' I. tambusisiana'' Bedford-Russell, 1981 – Bedford-Russell's tree-nymph or Sulawesi tree-nymph

References

External links

''Idea''
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