Athyrtis
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Genus: | Athyrtis |
Species: | A. mechanitis |
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Athyrtis mechanitis C. & R. Felder, 1862 |
Athyrtis is a butterfly genus of the Ithomiini tribe in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It is a monotypic genus, containing only Athyrtis mechanitis. The genus and the species were named by father and son entomologists Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1862.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athyrtis C. & R. Felder, 1862" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms