''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by

mimicry In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Mimicry may evolve between different species, or between individuals of the same species. Often, mimicry f ...

, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of which being now and then preponderant. The wings have a normal shape without indentations, tail appendages, lobing or coiling. The larva is shaped like a woodlouse, hunched, green, sometimes with a yellow lateral streak, the neck organ out of a transverse row of green spikes or bristles. It has a guard of ants. The pupa is green, fastened by a belt-like thread. The butterflies rest on the under surface of leaves and are chased up by beating the bushes, whereupon they fly like Geometridae for some paces, in order to hide themselves again. The swarming-time seems to be dawn, or the early morning, but the author came across them yet in the sunshine of the morning on blossoms. They are easily taken and fly low.Seitz, A. 1916. Family:Erycinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5:617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kerne

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Species

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Nymphidium acherois ''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of whic ...

'' (Boisduval, 1836) present in French Guiana, Brazil *''

Nymphidium ariari ''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of whic ...

'' Callaghan, 1988 present in

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Nymphidium ascolia ''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of which ...

'' Hewitson,

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, Brazil *''

Nymphidium aurum ''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of whic ...

'' Callaghan, 1985 present in Brazil *''

Nymphidium azanoides ''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of whic ...

'' Butler, 1867 present in

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, Ecuador, Brazil *''

Nymphidium baeotia ''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of whic ...

'' Hewitson,

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, Brazil *''

Nymphidium balbinus ''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of whic ...

'' Staudinger,

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/small> present in Colombia *''

Nymphidium cachrus ''Nymphidium '' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm. Some ''Nymphidium'' are obviously secondarily transformed by mimicry, otherwise the almost exclusive colours are brown and white either of whic ...

'' (Fabricius, 1787) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia *''Nymphidium callaghani'' Brévignon, 1999 present in French Guiana *''Nymphidium caricae'' (Linnaeus, 1758) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil *''Nymphidium carmentis'' Stichel, 1910 present in Ecuador, Bolivia *''Nymphidium chimborazium'' Bates, 1868 present in Ecuador *''Nymphidium chione'' Bates, 1867 present in Brazil *''Nymphidium colleti'' Gallard, 2008 *''Nymphidium derufata'' Callaghan, 1985 present in Suriname *''Nymphidium fulminans'' Bates, 1868 present in Colombia, Brazil *''Nymphidium guyanensis'' Gallard & Brévignon, 1989 present in French Guiana *''Nymphidium haematostictum'' Godman & Salvin, 1878 present in Costa Rica, Panama *''Nymphidium hermieri'' Gallard, 2008 *''Nymphidium hesperinum'' Stichel, 1911 present in Peru *''Nymphidium latibrunis'' Callaghan, 1985 present in Ecuador *''Nymphidium lenocinium'' Schaus, 1913 present in Costa Rica, Colombia *''Nymphidium leucosia'' (Hübner, [1806]) present in Colombia, Peru, Brazil *''Nymphidium lisimon'' (Stoll, 1790) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Peru, Brazil *''Nymphidium manicorensis'' Callaghan, 1985 present in French Guiana, Brazil *''Nymphidium mantus'' (Cramer, 1775) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil *''Nymphidium menalcus'' (Stoll, 1782) present in French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela *''Nymphidium ninias'' Hewitson, 1865 present in Brazil *''Nymphidium nivea'' Talbot, 1928 present in Brazil *''Nymphidium olinda'' Bates, 1865 present in Panama, Venezuela, Brazil *''Nymphidium omois'' Hewitson, 1865 present in Amazon basin *''Nymphidium onaeum'' Hewitson, 1869 present in Honduras, Panama *''Nymphidium plinthobaphis'' Stichel, 1910 present in Brazil, Peru *''Nymphidium smalli'' Callaghan, 1999 present in Panama *''Nymphidium strati'' Kaye, 1925 present in Trinidad and Tobago *''Nymphidium trinidadi'' Callaghan, 1999 present in Trinidad and Tobago *''Nymphidium undimargo'' Seitz, 1917 present in Brazil

Sources

''Nymphidium''
on Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

External links

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1762549 Nymphidiini Butterfly genera Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius