Tigridia acesta

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Scientific name Tigridia acesta		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Tribe Coeini (disputed) Rank Species

Similar Coeini, Baeotus, Colobura, Antanartia, Janatella

Borboleta tigridia acesta

Tigridia acesta, the tiger beauty, is a butterfly of the monotypic genus Tigridia in the Nymphalidae family found from Mexico to South America.

It is sometimes placed in the tribe Coeini and sometimes in the tribe Nymphalini.

T. a. acesta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mexico)

T. a. columbina (Neustetter, 1929) (Colombia)

T. a. fulvescens (Butler, 1873) (Peru, Ecuador)

T. a. latifascia (Butler, 1873) (Colombia)

T. a. ochracea (Bryk, 1953) (Peru)

T. a. tapajona (Butler, 1873) (Brazil)

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