Panacea (butterfly)

Panacea is a brush-footed butterfly genus found in Central America and South America. It is named after one of Asclepius's daughters Panacea.

Panacea
Panacea prola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Ageroniini
Genus: Panacea
Godman & Salvin, [1883]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Pandora Doubleday, [1848]
  • Pandora Westwood, [1850]

Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

  • Panacea bleuzeni Plantrou & Attal, 1986
  • Panacea chalcothea (Bates, 1868)
  • Panacea divalis (Bates, 1868)
  • Panacea procilla (Hewitson, 1852)
  • Panacea prola (Doubleday, [1848])
  • Panacea regina (Bates, 1864)

References

  1. Panacea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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