Hypocysta
Sign in to saveHypocysta is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae found in Oceania.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 51
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- YPM, CSIRO, FMNH
- Recorded in
- Australia, Papua New Guinea
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- Common Brown Ringlet.JPG
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- taxonomic type
- Hypocysta euphemia
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Hypocysta is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae found in Oceania.
==Species== The genus contains 12 species. Hypocysta adiante (Hübner, 1825) – orange ringlet Hypocysta angustata Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 – black and white ringlet Hypocysta aroa Bethune-Baker, 1908 Hypocysta euphemia Westwood, [1851] – rock ringlet Hypocysta haemonia Hewitson, 1863 Hypocysta irius (Fabricius, 1775) – northern ringlet Hypocysta metirius Butler, 1875 – common brown ringlet Hypocysta osyris (Boisduval, 1832) Hypocysta isis Fruhstorfer, 1894 Hypocysta calypso Grose-Smith, 1897 Hypocysta serapis Grose-Smith, 1894 Hypocysta pseudirius Butler, 1875 – dingy ringlet
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