Algia Felderi
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''Algia felderi'' is a
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 ...
of the family
Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...
. It is found on
New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
.Kirsch, 1877. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Lepidopteren-Fauna von Neu-Guinea


Subspecies

*''Algia felderi felderi'' (Kirsch, 1877) (northern West Irian to New Guinea) *''Algia felderi mimicus'' (Rothschild, 1904) (Papua New Guinea)


References

Vagrantini Butterflies described in 1877 Taxa named by Theodor Franz Wilhelm Kirsch Lepidoptera of New Guinea {{Nymphalidae-stub