Cupha

Cupha is a butterfly genus of the family Nymphalidae found in the Indomalayan and the Australasian realms.

Cupha
Cupha prosope
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Vagrantini
Genus: Cupha
Billberg, 1820
Synonyms
  • Messaras Doubleday, [1848]

The contained species are:[1]

  • Cupha arias C. & R. Felder, [1867]
  • Cupha crameri (Felder, 1860)
  • Cupha erymanthis (Drury, [1773])
  • Cupha lampetia (Linnaeus, 1764)
  • Cupha maeonides (Hewitson, 1859)
  • Cupha melichrysos (Mathew, 1887)
  • Cupha myronides Felder, 1860
  • Cupha prosope (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Cupha aureus Samson, 1980

References

  1. "Cupha Billberg, 1820" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Corbet A.S., Pendlebury H.M., Eliot J.N. 1992. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula (4th edn.) Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Parsons M. 1999. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea: Their Systematics and Biology. Academic Press, San Diego.


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