Kingdom Animalia Family Nymphalidae Scientific name Diaphanos Rank Genus | Class Insecta Subfamily Satyrinae Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths | |
Similar Eretris, Pronophila, Lasiophila, Lymanopoda | ||
Diaphanos is a genus of butterflies in the Nymphalidae family. There are three recognised species in the Neotropics, and one undescribed subspecies of D. huberi.
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Species
Taxonomy
Type species by original designation Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981 from the Cordillera de Merida in Venezuela. It was originally considered to be a monobasic genus, but two additional species were described from separate mountaintops in the Venezuelan Andes
References
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