Hermeuptychia is a genus of satyrid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm. They are a widespread, cryptic genus, with Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I species delineation methods implying much greater species diversity than currently recognised.[1]
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| H. hermes | |
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| H. sosybius | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
| Tribe: | Satyrini |
| Subtribe: | Euptychiina |
| Genus: | Hermeuptychia Forster, 1964 |
Species edit
The genus contains the following species, listed alphabetically:[2]
- Hermeuptychia atalanta (Butler, 1867)
- Hermeuptychia cucullina (Weymer, 1911)
- Hermeuptychia fallax (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
- Hermeuptychia gisella (Hayward, 1957)
- Hermeuptychia harmonia (Butler, 1867)
- Hermeuptychia hermes (Fabricius, 1775)
- Hermeuptychia hermybius Grishin, 2014
- Hermeuptychia intricata Grishin, 2014
- Hermeuptychia maimoune (Butler, 1870)
- Hermeuptychia pimpla (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
- Hermeuptychia sosybius (Fabricius, 1793)
References edit
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- ^ Tan, Denise; Parus, Anamaria; Dunbar, Michelle; Espeland, Marianne; Willmott, Keith R. (2021). "Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I barcode species delineation methods imply critically underestimated diversity in 'common' Hermeuptychia butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (4): 1256–1270. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab007.
- ^ "Hermeuptychia Forster, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms