Methone cecilia

Methone cecilia
Museum specimen in Muséum de Toulouse
Underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Riodinidae
Subfamily:
Euselasiinae
Genus:
Methone

Doubleday, 1847
Species:
M. cecilia
Binomial name
Methone cecilia
(Cramer, [1777])
Synonyms
  • Methonella Westwood, 1852
  • Papilio cecilia Cramer, [1777]
  • Papilio amyntor Fabricius, 1781 (preocc. Cramer, 1775)
  • Papilio dorine Stoll, 1782
  • Methonella chrysomela Butler, 1872
  • Methone chrysomela eusebes Stichel, 1919
  • Methonella vitellia Seitz, 1913
  • Methonella cecilia magnarea Seitz, 1913
  • Methonella amithrata Seitz, 1913
  • Methone cecilia magnarea f. metella Stichel, 1919
  • Methone columbana Stichel, 1924

Methone is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.

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