Lethe (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Lethe"

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image_caption = Straight-banded TreebrownLethe verma"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Satyrinae
tribus = Elymniini
genus = "Lethe"
genus_authority = Hübner, [1819]
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =Numerous, see text
synonyms ="Zophoessa"

"Lethe" is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. It includes the treebrowns, woodbrowns, foresters and their relatives. The species in the genus "Lethe" occur in temperate-tropical southern and eastern Asia, up to Indonesia.

Selected species

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* "Lethe andersoni" (Atkinson, 1871)
* Chinese Labyrinth, "Lethe armandina" Oberthür, 1881
* Small Goldenfork, "Lethe atkinsonia" Hewitson, 1876
* Treble Silverstripe, "Lethe baladeva" (Moore, 1886)
* Rusty Forester, "Lethe bhairava" (Moore, 1857)
* "Lethe bojonia" Fruhstorfer, 1913
* "Lethe butleri"
** "Lethe butleri periscelis" Fruhstorfer, 1908
* Angled Red Forester, "Lethe chandica" (Moore, 1858)
** "Lethe chandica ratnacri" Fruhstorfer, 1908
* "Lethe christophi"
** "Lethe christophi hanako" Fruhstorfer, 1908
* Banded Treebrown, "Lethe confusa"
* "Lethe dakwania" Tytler, 1939
* "Lethe diana"
** "Lethe diana australis" Naritomi, 1943
* Scarce Red Forester, "Lethe distans" Butler, 1870
* Tamil Treebrown, "Lethe drypetis"
* Scarce Lilacfork, "Lethe dura" (Marshall, 1882)
* Bamboo Treebrown, "Lethe europa"
** "Lethe europa pavida" Fruhstorfer, 1908
* Tytler's Treebrown, "Lethe gemina" Leech, 1891
** "Lethe gemina zaitha" Fruhstorfer, 1914
* Large Goldenfork, "Lethe goalpara" (Moore, 1865)
* Dull Forester, "Lethe gulnihal" de Nicéville, 1887
* Common Forester, "Lethe insana" (Kollar, 1844)
** "Lethe insana formosana" Fruhstorfer, 1908
* Small Silverfork, "Lethe jalaurida" (de Nicéville, 1880)
* Bamboo Forester, "Lethe kansa" (Moore, 1857)

* Manipur Goldenfork, "Lethe kabrua" Tytler, 1914
* Pale Forester, "Lethe latiaris" Hewitson, 1863
* Bhutan Treebrown, "Lethe margaritae" (Elwes, 1882)
* Barred Woodbrown, "Lethe maitrya" de Nicéville, 1880
* "Lethe mataja" Fruhstorfer, 1908
* Common Red Forester, "Lethe mekara" (Moore, [1858] )
* Moeller's Silverfork, "Lethe moelleri" (Elwes, 1887)
* Naga Treebrown, "Lethe naga" Doherty, 1889
* Yellow Woodbrown, "Lethe nicetas" Hewitson, [1868]
* Small Woodbrown, "Lethe nicetella" de Nicéville, 1887
* Dismal Mystic, "Lethe ocellata" Poujade, 1885
* Single Silverstripe, "Lethe ramadeva" (de Nicéville, 1887)
* Common Treebrown, "Lethe rohria"
** "Lethe rohria daemoniaca" Fruhstorfer, 1908
* Blue Forester, "Lethe scanda" (Moore, 1857)
* Pallid Forester, "Lethe satyavati" de Nicéville, 1880
* Brown Forester, "Lethe serbonis" (Hewitson, 1876)
** "Lethe serbonis serbonis"
** "Lethe serbonis teesta"
* Scarce Woodbrown, "Lethe siderea" Marshall, 1880
* Common Woodbrown, "Lethe sidonis" (Hewitson, 1863)
* Tailed Red Forester, "Lethe sinorix" (Hewitson, 1863)
* Lilacfork, "Lethe sura" (Doubleday, 1849)
* Spotted Mystic, "Lethe tristigmata" Elwes, 1887
* Straight-banded Treebrown, "Lethe verma" (Kollar, 1844)
** "Lethe verma cintamani" Fruhstorfer, 1848
* Black Forester, "Lethe vindhya" (Felder & Felder, 1859)
* Manipur Woodbrown, "Lethe violaceopicta" (Poujade, 1884)
* White-edged Woodbrown, "Lethe visrava" (Moore, 1865)

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