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''Cithaerias'' 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 ...
butterfly 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 ...
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
from 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 diver ...
in 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 ...
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Species

* '' Cithaerias andromeda'' (Fabricius, 1775) * '' Cithaerias phantoma'' (Fassl, 1922) * '' Cithaerias pireta'' (Stoll,
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* '' Cithaerias pyritosa'' (Zikán, 1942) * '' Cithaerias pyropina'' (Salvin & Godman, 1868)


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External links


Nymphalidae.net taxonomic list
Haeterini Nymphalidae of South America Butterfly genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner {{Satyrinae-stub