''Napeogenes tolosa'', the Tolosa tigerwing, is a species of

butterfly 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 ...

. It is found from

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

to northern

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 ...

. The larvae feed on ''

Solanum ''Solanum'' is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae ...

'' and ''

Lycianthes ''Lycianthes'' is a genus of plants from the nightshade family ( Solanaceae), found in both the Old World and the New World, but predominantly in the latter. It contains roughly 150 species, mostly from tropical America, with 35-40 species in As ...

'' species.

Subspecies

*''Napeogenes tolosa tolosa'' (Mexico) *''Napeogenes tolosa amara'' Godman, 1899 (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama) *''Napeogenes tolosa chrispina'' (Hewitson, 1874) (Ecuador, Colombia) *''Napeogenes tolosa diaphanosa'' Kaye, 1918 (Colombia) *''Napeogenes tolosa mombachoensis'' Brabant & Maes, 1997 (Nicaragua) There are two undescribed subspecies from Panama.

References

Butterflies described in 1855 Ithomiini Nymphalidae of South America Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Danainae-stub