Ariadne (genus)

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Biblidinae

Ariadne is a genus of nymphalid butterflies, commonly called castors, found from Sub-Saharan Africa to South-East Asia. The genus was named after Ariadne the daughter of Minos, king of Crete.

Species

Listed alphabetically:

Ariadne actisanes (Hewitson, 1875)

Ariadne albifascia (Joicey & Talbot, 1921)

Ariadne ariadne (Linnaeus, 1763) – angled castor (India, China, Ceylon, Indonesia)

Ariadne celebensis Holland, 1898

Ariadne enotrea (Cramer, [1779]) – African castor

Ariadne isaeus (Wallace, 1869) – lesser angled castor

Ariadne merione (Cramer, [1777]) – common castor (Ceylon, India, Burma, Malaysia)

Ariadne merionoides (Holland, 1891)

Ariadne obscura (C. & R. Felder, [1867])

Ariadne pagenstecheri (Suffert, 1904) – Pagenstecher's castor (Cameroon, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Zaire, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

Ariadne personata (Joicey & Talbot, 1921)

Ariadne specularia (Fruhstorfer, 1899)

Ariadne taeniata (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Indonesia)

Ariadne timora (Wallace, 1869) (Timor)

References

Ariadne (genus) Wikipedia

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