Capronnieria
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''Capronnieria'' is a
monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...
butterfly genus of the subfamily
Satyrinae The Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the browns, are a subfamily of the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies). They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known divers ...
found in the
Neotropical realm The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...
. Its one species is ''Capronnieria galesus'' described by
Jean Baptiste Godart Jean-Baptiste Godart (25 November 1775 – 27 July 1825) was a French entomologist. Born at Origny, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth. He was charged by Pierre AndrĂ© Latreille (1762-1833) with writing the article on the ...
in 1824."''Capronnieria'' Forster, 1964"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''


References

Euptychiina Butterfly genera Taxa named by Walter Forster (entomologist) {{Satyrini-stub