''Cupha'' is a butterfly genus 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 have a re ...

found in the

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and the

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realms. The contained species are:"''Cupha'' Billberg, 1820"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *'' Cupha arias'' C. & R. Felder, 867/small> *'' Cupha crameri'' (Felder, 1860) *''

Cupha erymanthis ''Cupha erymanthis'', the rustic, is a species of brush-footed butterfly found in forested areas of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. The males and females are identical. Description Upperside The upperside of the rustic is ochraceous ...

'' (Drury,

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*'' Cupha lampetia'' (Linnaeus, 1764) *'' Cupha maeonides'' (Hewitson, 1859) *'' Cupha melichrysos'' (Mathew, 1887) *'' Cupha myronides'' Felder, 1860 *'' Cupha prosope'' (Fabricius, 1775) *'' Cupha aureus'' Samson, 1980

References

*Corbet A.S., Pendlebury H.M., Eliot J.N. 1992. ''The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula'' (4th edn.) Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. *Parsons M. 1999. ''The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea: Their Systematics and Biology''. Academic Press, San Diego.

External links

Images representing ''Cupha''
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Images representing ''Cupha''
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Vagrantini Taxa named by Gustaf Johan Billberg Nymphalidae genera {{Heliconiinae-stub