butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
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 ...
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Species
Listed alphabetically:"''Cissia'' Doubleday, 1848" at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*'' Cissia cleophes'' (Godman & Salvin, 1889) – Salvin's satyr
*'' Cissia eous'' (Butler, 1867) - brown satyr
*'' Cissia joyceae'' Singer, DeVries & Ehrlich, 1983
*'' Cissia penelope'' (Fabricius, 1775) – Penelope's ringlet
** ='' Cissia moneta'' (Weymer, 1911) yn.*'' Cissia pompilia'' (C. & R. Felder, 867 – plain satyr
*'' Cissia proba'' (Weymer, 1911) – Weymer's ringlet
Plus others later transferred into genus.
Below are those moved to other genera between 1998 and 2023:
*'' Cissia confusa'' (Staudinger, 1887) – confused satyr
*'' Cissia labe'' (Butler, 1870) – rusty-spotted satyr
*'' Cissia lesbia'' (Staudinger,
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Year 886 (Roman numerals, DCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* March – A wide-ranging conspiracy against Emperor Basil I, led by John Kourkouas (9t ...
Trinidad
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