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Cithaerias
Cithaerias is a Neotropical butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
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Cartea
Cartea is a butterfly genus in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Neotropics.
Saribia
Saribia is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae.
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Leucochimona
Leucochimona is a butterfly genus in the family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
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Chamaelimnas
Chamaelimnas is a Neotropical metalmark butterfly genus.
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Salamis
genus of insects
Baeotis
Baeotis is a butterfly genus in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Americas. Baeotis are tiny (25–40 mm.), black and yellow, sometimes also white and black butterflies flying about in the sunshine during day-time, with a delicate body, a somewhat projecting apex of the forewing and an extraordinarily short cell of the hindwing, which is not even half as large as the cell of the forewing.
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Semomesia
Semomesia is a genus of metalmark butterflies.
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Calephelis
Calephelis is a genus of butterflies that belongs to the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Americas, with 43 species in the Neotropical regions and 11 species in the Nearctic.
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Lasaia
Lasaia is a genus of metalmark butterflies in the family Riodinidae. The genus was erected by Henry Walter Bates in 1868. There are about 13 described species in Lasaia, found in North, Central, and South America.
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Riodina
Riodina is a Neotropical metalmark butterfly genus.
Voltinia
Genus of butterflies
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Adelotypa
Adelotypa is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. They are found in South America.
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Memphis
genus of insects
Zemeros
Zemeros is a genus of butterflies that belongs to the family Riodinidae.
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Mesosemia
Mesosemia is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
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Mimoides
Mimoides is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae. The species native to the Americas were formerly in genus Eurytides.
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Taenaris
Taenaris is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, subfamily Amathusiinae, that distributed throughout Australasia with a majority of species being located on the island of New Guinea. They are commonly known as the owl butterflies.
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Lyropteryx
Lyropteryx is a genus of butterflies of the family Riodinidae. Species of this genus are widespread in the tropical areas of the South America.
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Necyria
Necyria is a Neotropical metalmark butterfly genus.
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Oeneis
Oeneis (the Arctics or graylings) is a butterfly genus of the Satyrinae. All but one of its members are Arctic, sub-Arctic or high-altitude alpine in distribution. Some of the members of the genus are among the butterflies that can get along in the harshest climates of any butterflies. Four species in Europe, more are found in Arctic Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, Arctic North America and the Rocky Mountains. There are no observations from Greenland. The development of most species takes two years.
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Bicyclus
Bicyclus is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The species are found in the Afrotropical realm.
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Eurybia
genus of insects
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Aricoris
Aricoris is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present in the Neotropical realm.
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Xenandra
Xenandra is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present in the Neotropical realm.
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Siproeta
thumb|upright 1.10|Siproeta superba
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Elymnias
The palmflies are a common Asian butterfly genus found from India to the Solomon Islands. The caterpillars mimic leaves which they feed on. The adults mimic certain species (for example: E. cumaea looks like Melanitis leda). thumb|Elymnias caudata
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Stalachtis
Stalachtis is a genus of metalmark butterflies (family Riodinidae). It is currently the only member of the tribe Stalachtini, but many metalmark butterflies are yet to be unequivocally assigned to tribes, so this might change eventually.
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Calydna
genus of insects
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Tirumala
genus of butterflies
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Perophthalma
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Ancyloxypha
Ancyloxypha is a genus of skipper butterflies in the subfamily Hesperiinae.
Mesene
genus of insects
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Berberia
Berberia is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The species in the genus Berberia occur in North Africa.
Emesis
genus of insects
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Pedaliodes
thumb|Dejected pedalioPedaliodes dejecta dejectaPanama Pedaliodes is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1867.
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Neita
Neita is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
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Heteropsis
genus of insects
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Enodia
genus of insects
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Aricia
genus of insects
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Melanis
thumb|Melanis pixe|M. pixe (red-bordered pixie) Melanis is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present in the Neotropical realm.
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Prothoe
Prothoe is a genus of charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. Two of the three species are virtually restricted to western and central Melanesia, but the most widespread species, P. franck, occurs throughout a large part of South-East Asia and as far northwest as Assam in India.
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Helicopis
Helicopis is a Neotropical genus of butterflies of the family Riodinidae.
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Syrmatia
Syrmatia is a South American metalmark butterfly genus in the subfamily Riodininae.
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Arethusana
Arethusana is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae of the brush-footed butterfly family (Nymphalidae). It is composed of only one species, Arethusana arethusa, the false grayling.
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Eresia
genus of insects
Geitoneura
Geitoneura is a genus of nymphalid butterflies, commonly known as xenicas. The genus contains three species.
Ithomeis
Ithomeis is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
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Symmachia
Symmachia is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
Alesa
Alesa is a New World (Neotropical realm) genus of metalmark butterflies found in northern South America.
Hyponephele
Hyponephele is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. Most range from Europe into central Asia with a few in northern Africa. They are commonly called meadowbrowns.
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Cariomothis
Cariomothis is a butterfly genus in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Neotropics.
Themone
Themone is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
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Pheles
Pheles is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
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Colaciticus
Colaciticus is a butterfly genus in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Neotropics.
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Chalodeta
Chalodeta is a butterfly genus in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Neotropics.
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Calisto
genus of insects
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Consul
genus of insects
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Lamproptera
Lamproptera is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae and the tribe Leptocircini.
Paralaxita
Paralaxita is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in Southeast Asia.