
''Caerois'' is a
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bi ...
genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...
from 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 have a re ...
.
Species
Arranged alphabetically:
["''Caerois'' Hübner, [1819]"]
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*''Caerois chorinaeus">819]"">"''Caerois'' Hübner, [1819]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*''Caerois chorinaeus''
(Fabricius, 1775)
*''Caerois gerdrudtus''
(Fabricius, 1793)
References
Morphinae
Nymphalidae of South America
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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