Nessaea

Nessaea
Nessaea
Nessaea hewitsoni Museum specimen. Brazil.
Nessaea obrina (Brazil, Jari River)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Tribe: Epicaliini
Genus: Nessaea
Hübner, 1819
Type species
Papilio ancaeus
Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms

Epicallia Erichson, 1848 (non Hübner, [1820]: preoccupied)
Polychroa Billberg, 1820

Nessaea is a genus of nymphalid butterfly found in the Neotropical Ecozone. Unlike virtually all other butterflies with blue coloration, the blue colors in this genus are due to pigmentation[1] rather than iridescence (e.g., Morpho species).

Contents

Species

Images

  • Nessaea obrina Female. Upperside.

  • Nessaea obrina Male. Upperside.

  • Nessaea obrina Underside.

  • Nessaea aglaura

References

Vane-Wright, R.I. 1979. The coloration, identification and phylogeny of Nessaea butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 38: 27–56.

External links

Media related to Nessaea at Wikimedia Commons


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