Mielkella is a Neotropical butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. The genus is monotypic containing the single species Mielkella singularis from Guatemala and Mexico.[1][2]

Mielkella
Mielkella singularis, figure 3
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Brassolini
Genus: Mielkella
Casagrande 1982
Species:
M. singularis
Binomial name
Mielkella singularis
(Weymer 1907)
Synonyms
  • Opsiphanes singularis Weymer, 1907

References edit

  1. ^ Butterflies of America
  2. ^ "Mielkella Casagrande, 1982" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms