Perisama

Perisama is a brush-footed butterfly genus found in the Neotropical realm, ranging from Colombia and Venezuela to Argentina.

Perisama
Cyan-banded Pericloud (P. jurinei),
Aguas Calientes, Peru
Alice's Pericloud (Perisama alicia alicia),
El Topo, Ecuador
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Callicorini
Genus: Perisama
Doubleday, [1849]
Species

Numerous, see text

Species

Listed alphabetically by group and within groups:[1]

The alicia species group:

  • Perisama alicia (Hewitson, 1868) — Alice's Pericloud
  • Perisama cabirnia (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Perisama comnena (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Perisama emma Oberthür, 1916
  • Perisama gisco Godman & Salvin, 1880
  • Perisama guerini C. & R. Felder, [1867]
  • Perisama humboldtii (Guérin-Méneville, [1844])
  • Perisama ilia Röber, 1915
  • Perisama nevada Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 1996
  • Perisama tringa (Guenée, 1872)
  • Perisama vitringa (Hewitson, 1858)
  • Perisama yeba (Hewitson, 1857)

The bomplandii species group:

  • Perisama bomplandii (Guérin-Méneville, [1844])
  • Perisama morona (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Perisama moronina Röber, 1915

The canoma species group:

  • Perisama canoma Druce, 1874 – Manu Pericloud
  • Perisama satanas Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 1996

The dorbignyi species group:

  • Perisama aldasi Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 1996
  • Perisama dorbignyi (Guérin-Méneville, [1844])
  • Perisama jurinei (Guenée, 1872) – Cyan-banded Pericloud
  • Perisama patara (Hewitson, 1855

The lebasii species group:

  • Perisama ambatensis Oberthür, 1916
  • Perisama calamis (Hewitson, 1869)
  • Perisama hilara Salvin, 1869
  • Perisama koenigi Descimon & Mast de Maeght, 1995
  • Perisama lanice (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Perisama lebasii (Guérin-Méneville, [1844])

The oppelii species group:

  • Perisama oppelii (Latreille, [1809])
  • Perisama xanthica (Hewitson, 1868)

The paralicia species group:

  • Perisama paralicia Fruhstorfer, 1916

The philinus species group:

  • Perisama philinus Doubleday, [1849]
  • Perisama tristrigosa Butler, 1873 – Butler's Pericloud

The tryphena species group:

  • Perisama affinis Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 1996
  • Perisama antioquia Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 1996
  • Perisama cloelia (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Perisama goeringi Druce, 1875
  • Perisama hazarma (Hewitson, 1877)
  • Perisama ouma Dognin, 1891
  • Perisama tryphena (Hewitson, 1857) — Straw-vented Pericloud
  • Perisama typhania Oberthür, 1916

Unknown taxa:

  • Perisama amyntichus Doubleday, 1849

References
  1. "Perisama Doubleday, [1849]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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