Euriphene is a butterfly genus in the subfamily Limenitidinae. The 70 or so member species are confined to the Afrotropical realm. They are found mainly in the Guinean Forests of West Africa and the Congolian forests.
Euriphene species resemble Bebearia. The upperside ground colour of the males of some species is grey overlain with a metallic steely-blue sheen (E. barombina, E. coerulea and E. veronica). In other species the ground colour is reddish brown (E. lysandra and E. gambiae). All the species have distinctive dark bars in the forewing cell and suffused dark markings on the rest of the wings. Many have an apical arc of small white spots. The head is wide with long, erect palpi. The antennae are very long, with a gradually-formed, robust club. The thorax is robust and woolly. The wing characters are forewings moderately large; costa very much arched; apex rather acute; hind-margin nearly straight. Hindwings sub-oval; hindmargin entire, or not strongly scalloped. The abdomen is rather small.
The type species of the genus is Aterica tadema Hewitson.
Listed alphabetically within species groups:
Subgenus Doricleana Hecq, 1994Euriphene doriclea (Drury, 1782)Euriphene lysandra (Stoll, [1790])Euriphene melanops (Aurivillius, 1898)Euriphene paralysandra d'Abrera, 2004Subgenus Euriphenaria Hecq, 1994The goniogramma species groupEuriphene batesana Bethune-Baker, 1926Euriphene butleri (Aurivillius, 1904)Euriphene camarensis (Ward, 1871)Euriphene goniogramma (Karsch, 1894)Euriphene ituriensis (Jackson & Howarth, 1957)Euriphene luteostriata (Bethune-Baker, 1908)Euriphene mundula (Grünberg, 1910)Euriphene obtusangula (Aurivillius, 1912)Euriphene pinkieana Bernardi, 1975Euriphene ribensis (Ward, 1871)Euriphene tessmanniana (Bryk, 1915)The duseni species groupEuriphene adumbrata (Joicey & Talbot, 1928)Euriphene canui Hecq, 1987Euriphene duseni (Aurivillius, 1893)Euriphene minkoi Bernardi, 1993The atossa species groupEuriphene ampedusa (Hewitson, 1866)Euriphene atossa (Hewitson, 1865)Euriphene leonis (Aurivillius, 1899)The gambiae species groupEuriphene gambiae Feisthamel, 1850The barombina species groupEuriphene abasa (Hewitson, 1866)Euriphene alberici (Dufrane, 1945)Euriphene amaranta (Karsch, 1894)Euriphene amicia (Hewitson, 1871)Euriphene amieti Collins & Larsen, 1997Euriphene anaxibia Hecq, 1997Euriphene aridatha (Hewitson, 1866)Euriphene atropurpurea (Aurivillius, 1894)Euriphene atrovirens (Mabille, 1878)Euriphene barombina (Aurivillius, 1894)Euriphene bernaudi Hecq, 1994Euriphene coerulea Boisduval, 1847Euriphene conjungens (Aurivillius, 1909)Euriphene core Hecq, 1994Euriphene ernestibaumanni (Karsch, 1895)Euriphene excelsior (Rebel, 1911)Euriphene fouassini Hecq, 1994Euriphene glaucopis Gaede, 1915Euriphene grosesmithi (Staudinger, 1891)Euriphene hecqui Collins & Larsen, 1997Euriphene incerta (Aurivillius, 1912)Euriphene intermixta (Aurivillius, 1904)Euriphene iris (Aurivillius, 1903)Euriphene jacksoni (Talbot, 1937)Euriphene jolyana Hecq, 1987Euriphene kahli (Holland, 1920)Euriphene karschi (Aurivillius, 1894)Euriphene larseni Hecq, 1994Euriphene lomaensis Belcastro, 1986Euriphene mawamba (Bethune-Baker, 1908)Euriphene milnei (Hewitson, 1865)Euriphene moloukou Hecq, 2002Euriphene monforti Hecq, 1994Euriphene niepelti Neustetter, 1916Euriphene obani Wojtusiak & Knoop, 1994Euriphene obsoleta (Grünberg, 1908)Euriphene pallidior (Hulstaert, 1924)Euriphene pavo (Howarth, 1959)Euriphene plagiata (Aurivillius, 1898)Euriphene rectangula (Schultze, 1920)Euriphene regula Hecq, 1994Euriphene saphirina Karsch, 1894Euriphene schultzei (Aurivillius, 1909)Euriphene simplex (Staudinger, 1891)Euriphene splendida Collins & Larsen, 1997Euriphene tadema (Hewitson, 1866)Euriphene veronica (Stoll, 1780)Unknown species groupEuriphene aurivillii (Bartel, 1905)Euriphene epe Pyrcz & Larsen, 2009Euriphene kiki Bernardi & Larsen, 1980Euriphene romi (Aurivillius, 1898)Euriphene rotundata (Holland, 1920)Euriphene taigola Sáfián & Warren-Gash, 2009
