''Bassarona'' is a
genus
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of
brush-footed butterflies found in India and Southeast Asia.
They are large, powerful, more or less brownish butterflies. The upperside is brown with a row of white spots that may flow together into a white transverse band. The underside is light grey-brown.
Selected species
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Bassarona byakko
''Bassarona'' is a genus of brush-footed butterflies found in India and Southeast Asia.
They are large, powerful, more or less brownish butterflies. The upperside is brown with a row of white spots that may flow together into a white transvers ...
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(Uehara & Yoshida, 1995)
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Bassarona dunya
''Bassarona dunya'', the great marquis, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South-East Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, ea ...
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(Doubleday, 848 – great marquis
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(Moore, 858
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Events
By place
Europe
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Bassarona iva
''Bassarona'' is a genus of brush-footed butterflies found in India and Southeast Asia.
They are large, powerful, more or less brownish butterflies. The upperside is brown with a row of white spots that may flow together into a white transvers ...
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(Moore, 858
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Year 858 ( DCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – King Louis the German, summoned by the disaffected Frankish nobles, invades the West Frankish Kin ...
– grand duke
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Bassarona labotas''
(Hewitson, 1864)
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Bassarona piratica''
(Semper, 1888)
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Bassarona recta
''Bassarona recta'', the redtail marquis, (central Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi)
References
Bassarona
Butterflies of Indochina
Butterflies described in 1886
Butterflies of Malaysia
Taxa named by Lionel de Nicéville
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(de Nicéville, 1886) – red-tailed marquis
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Bassarona teuta''
(Doubleday, 848 – banded marquis
References
Limenitidinae
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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