Anthanassa is a genus of North and South American butterflies of the family Nymphalidae found from the United States to South America. One authority places this genus as a subgenus of Phyciodes.[1]

Anthanassa
Blackened crescent
Anthanassa otanes fulviplaga, Panama
Orange-patched crescent
Anthanassa drusilla drusilla male, Panama
Mariposa Lunita Tejana (Texan crescentspot butterfly) Anthanassa texana ssp. texana, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Melitaeini
Genus: Anthanassa
Scudder, 1875
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Listed alphabetically:[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Glassberg, J. (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America Sunstreak Books, pp. 89-91.
  2. ^ "Anthanassa Scudder, 1875" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms