Taenaris bioculatus

Taenaris bioculatus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1830. It is endemic to New Guinea in the Australasian realm[2]

Taenaris bioculatus
Taenaris bioculatus pallida in Seitz
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Taenaris
Species:
T. bioculatus
Binomial name
Taenaris bioculatus
Synonyms
  • Morpho bioculatus Guérin-Méneville, [1830]
  • Taenaris bioculatus pallida Fruhstorfer, 1905
  • indra Boisduval, 1832
  • pallus Fruhstorfer, 1905

Subspecies
  • T. b. bioculatus (Waigeu, Gebe, Salawati, Northwest New Guinea)
  • T. b. albius Brooks, 1950 (New Guinea: Afrak, Weyland, Kunupi)
  • T. b. grisescens Rothschild, 1915 (New Guinea: Snow Mountains)
  • T. b. avarea Fruhstorfer, 1916 (Southwest New Guinea)
  • T. b. charondas Fruhstorfer, 1911 (New Guinea: Lower Aroa River)
  • T. b. charon Staudinger, 1887 (New Guinea: Fischhafen)
  • T. b. cameronensis Rothschild, 1916 (New Guinea: Owen Stanley Range)

References
  1. Guérin-Méneville, [1830] Crustacés, arachnides et insectes. 319pp, 22pls [lepidoptera 271-286] Voyage Coquille, 2 (2) : pl. 13-17 (1830), : pl. 14bis (1831), : pl. 18-19 (1831), : 271-286, 316-319 [index?] (1838)
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  • Taenaris at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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