Heteropsis (butterfly)
Encyclopedia
Heteropsis is a butterfly
genus
from the subfamily Satyrinae
in the family Nymphalidae
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Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
from the subfamily Satyrinae
Satyrinae
Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the Browns, is a subfamily of the Nymphalidae . They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known diversity of brush-footed butterflies...
in the family Nymphalidae
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae is a family of about 5,000 species of butterflies which are distributed throughout most of the world. These are usually medium sized to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of forelegs and many hold their colourful wings flat when resting. They are also called...
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Species
- Heteropsis adolphei (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
- Heteropsis alaokola (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis anceps (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis andasibe Lees, 2003
- Heteropsis andravahana (Mabille, 1878)
- Heteropsis anganavo (Ward, 1871)
- Heteropsis angolensis Kielland, 1994
- Heteropsis angulifascia (Butler, 1879)
- Heteropsis ankaratra (Ward, 1870)
- Heteropsis ankoma (Mabille, 1878)
- Heteropsis ankova (Ward, 1870)
- Heteropsis antahala (Ward, 1872)
- Heteropsis avelona (Ward, 1870)
- Heteropsis bicristata (Mabille, 1878)
- Heteropsis centralis Aurivillius, 1903
- Heteropsis comorana (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis cowani (Butler, 1880)
- Heteropsis decira (Plötz, 1880)
- Heteropsis difficilis (Mabille, 1880)
- Heteropsis drepana Westwood, 1850
- Heteropsis eliasis (Hewitson, [1866])
- Heteropsis elisi (Karsch, 1893)
- Heteropsis erebennis (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis erebina (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis exocellata (Mabille, [1880])
- Heteropsis fuliginosa (Mabille, 1878)
- Heteropsis iboina (Ward, 1870)
- Heteropsis laeta (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis laetifica (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis mabillei (Butler, 1879)
- Heteropsis maeva (Mabille, 1878)
- Heteropsis masoura (Hewitson, 1875)
- Heteropsis narcissus (Fabricius, 1798)
- Heteropsis narova (Mabille, 1877)
- Heteropsis nigrescens (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
- Heteropsis obscura (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis ochracea Lathy, 1906
- Heteropsis pallida (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis paradoxa (Mabille, [1880])
- Heteropsis parva (Butler, 1879)
- Heteropsis parvidens (Mabille, 1880)
- Heteropsis passandava (Ward, 1871)
- Heteropsis pauper (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis peitho (Plötz, 1880)
- Heteropsis perspicuaHeteropsis perspicuaThe Eyed Bush Brown, Swamp Patroller or Marsh Patroller is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Transvaal, Mozambique, from Zimbabwe to Kenya, in eastern Zaire and Tanzania....
(Trimen, 1873) - Heteropsis phaea Karsch, 1890
- Heteropsis sabas (Oberthür, 1923)
- Heteropsis simonsii (Butler, 1877)
- Heteropsis strato (Mabille, 1878)
- Heteropsis strigula (Mabille, 1877)
- Heteropsis subsimilis (Butler, 1879)
- Heteropsis teratia (Karsch, 1894)
- Heteropsis turbans (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis turbata (Butler, 1880)
- Heteropsis ubenica Thurau, 1903
- Heteropsis undulans (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis uniformis (Oberthür, 1916)
- Heteropsis viettei Lees, 2003
- Heteropsis vola (Ward, 1870)
- Heteropsis wardii (Butler, 1879)