''Siderone'' is a
Neotropical
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 ...
nymphalid
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 ...
butterfly
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
in the subfamily
Charaxinae
__NOTOC__
The Charaxinae, the leafwings, are a nymphalid subfamily of butterflies that includes about 400 species, inhabiting mainly the tropics, although some species extend into temperate regions in North America, Europe, China, and southern ...
.
Species
* ''
Siderone galanthis''
(Cramer, 775 – scarlet leafwing, red-and-black leafwing, or red-striped leafwing
* ''
Siderone nemesis''
(Illiger, 1801) – Nemesis
* ''
Siderone syntyche''
Hewitson, 1854 – red-patched leafwing
External links
"''Siderone''_Hübner,_[1823]"at_Markku_Savela's_''Lepidoptera_and_Some_Other_Life_Forms''
Anaeini.html" ;"title="823]"">"''Siderone'' Hübner, [1823]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Anaeini">823]"">"''Siderone'' Hübner, [1823]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Anaeini
Nymphalidae of South America
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
Butterfly genera
{{Charaxinae-stub