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Necyria
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Within Vinony's link graph, Necyria is referenced by 3 other articles, and connects out to Brazil, Colombia and Animalia.
It is catalogued under topics including Butterfly genera, Riodinini and Taxa described in 1851.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyLycaenidae
Necyria es un género de mariposas de la familia Riodinidae.[3] Índice 1 Descripción 2 Diversidad 3 Plantas hospederas 4 Referencias 5 Enlaces externos Descripción La especie tipo es Necyria bellona Westwood, 1851, según designación posterior realizada por Scudder en 1875.[4][2] Diversidad Existen 4 especies reconocidas en el género, 3 de ellas tienen distribución neotropical.[5] Plantas hospederas Las especies del género Necyria se alimentan de plantas de las familias Melastomataceae, Gesneriaceae, Vochysiaceae. Las plantas hospederas reportadas incluyen los géneros Conostegia, Drymonia, Vochysia, Miconia.[6][7] Referencias ↑ Heikkilä, M. and Kaila, L. and Mutanen, M. and Peña, C. and Wahlberg, N. (2012) Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279(1731):1093-1099, doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1430 ↑ a b G. Lamas (2008) Genera and Genus-group Names of the Butterflies of the World, compartido por J. Mallet en The Taxome Project Home Page (Consultado en marzo 2013) ↑ Westwood (1851) Gen. diurn. Lep. 2:432, pl. 73, fig. 9 ↑ Scudder (1875) Proc. amer. acad. Arts Sci., Boston NA(10): 225
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Necyria is a Neotropical metalmark butterfly genus.
There are three species which all have colourful iridescent markings. They are forest insects. Some are part of mimetic complexes.
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