Diaphanos is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. There are three recognised species in the Neotropics, and one undescribed subspecies of D. huberi.[1]
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| Genus: | Diaphanos Adams & Bernard, 1981
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Species edit
- Diaphanos curvignathos Viloria, 1994
- Diaphanos fuscus Viloria, 1994
- Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981
Taxonomy edit
The type species by original designation is Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981 from the Cordillera de Merida in Venezuela.[2] It was originally considered to be a monobasic genus, but two additional species were described from separate mountaintops in the Venezuelan Andes.[3]
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- ^ Gerardo Lamas 2004 Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. CheckList: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea Scientific Publishers.
- ^ Adams & Bernard (1981) Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 71:351
- ^ Viloria, A. L. (1994) "High Andean Pronophilini from Venezuela: Two new species of Diaphanos (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)" Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48:180-189
- Adams, M.J. & G.I. Bernard, 1981, Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 343-373.