Euriphene

''Euriphene'' is a butterfly genus in the subfamily Limenitidinae. The 70 or so member species are confined to the Afrotropical realm. They are found mainly in the Guinean Forests of West Africa and the Congolian forests.

Description

''Euriphene'' species resemble ''Bebearia''. The upperside ground colour of the males of some species is grey overlain with a metallic steely-blue sheen ('' E. barombina'', '' E. coerulea'' and '' E. veronica''). In other species the ground colour is reddish brown ('' E. lysandra'' and '' E. gambiae''). All the species have distinctive dark bars in the forewing cell and suffused dark markings on the rest of the wings. Many have an apical arc of small white spots. The head is wide with long, erect palpi. The antennae are very long, with a gradually-formed, robust club. The thorax is robust and woolly. The wing characters are forewings moderately large; costa very much arched; apex rather acute; hind-margin nearly straight. Hindwings sub-oval; hindmargin entire, or not strongly scalloped. The abdomen is rather small.

Taxonomy

The type species of the genus is '' Aterica tadema'' Hewitson.

Species

Listed alphabetically within species groups:"''Euriphene'' Boisduval, 1847"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*Subgenus ''Doricleana'' Hecq, 1994
**''Euriphene doriclea'' (Drury, 1782)
**''Euriphene lysandra'' (Stoll, 790
**''Euriphene melanops'' (Aurivillius, 1898)
**''Euriphene paralysandra'' d'Abrera, 2004
*Subgenus ''Euriphenaria'' Hecq, 1994
**The ''goniogramma'' species group
***'' Euriphene batesana'' Bethune-Baker, 1926
***''Euriphene butleri'' (Aurivillius, 1904)
***'' Euriphene camarensis'' (Ward, 1871)
***''Euriphene goniogramma'' (Karsch, 1894)
***'' Euriphene ituriensis'' (Jackson & Howarth, 1957)
***'' Euriphene luteostriata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
***'' Euriphene mundula'' (Grünberg, 1910)
***'' Euriphene obtusangula'' (Aurivillius, 1912)
***'' Euriphene pinkieana'' Bernardi, 1975
***'' Euriphene ribensis'' (Ward, 1871)
***''Euriphene tessmanniana'' (Bryk, 1915)
**The ''duseni'' species group
***'' Euriphene adumbrata'' (Joicey & Talbot, 1928)
***'' Euriphene canui'' Hecq, 1987
***'' Euriphene duseni'' (Aurivillius, 1893)
***'' Euriphene minkoi'' Bernardi, 1993
**The ''atossa'' species group
***'' Euriphene ampedusa'' (Hewitson, 1866)
***'' Euriphene atossa'' (Hewitson, 1865)
***'' Euriphene leonis'' (Aurivillius, 1899)
**The ''gambiae'' species group
***''Euriphene gambiae'' Feisthamel, 1850
**The ''barombina'' species group
***'' Euriphene abasa'' (Hewitson, 1866)
***'' Euriphene alberici'' (Dufrane, 1945)
***'' Euriphene amaranta'' (Karsch, 1894)
***'' Euriphene amicia'' (Hewitson, 1871)
***'' Euriphene amieti'' Collins & Larsen, 1997
***'' Euriphene anaxibia'' Hecq, 1997
***'' Euriphene aridatha'' (Hewitson, 1866)
***'' Euriphene atropurpurea'' (Aurivillius, 1894)
***'' Euriphene atrovirens'' (Mabille, 1878)
***''Euriphene barombina'' (Aurivillius, 1894)
***'' Euriphene bernaudi'' Hecq, 1994
***'' Euriphene coerulea'' Boisduval, 1847
***'' Euriphene conjungens'' (Aurivillius, 1909)
***'' Euriphene core'' Hecq, 1994
***'' Euriphene ernestibaumanni'' (Karsch, 1895)
***'' Euriphene excelsior'' (Rebel, 1911)
***'' Euriphene fouassini'' Hecq, 1994
***'' Euriphene glaucopis'' Gaede, 1915
***'' Euriphene grosesmithi'' (Staudinger, 1891)
***'' Euriphene hecqui'' Collins & Larsen, 1997
***'' Euriphene incerta'' (Aurivillius, 1912)
***'' Euriphene intermixta'' (Aurivillius, 1904)
***'' Euriphene iris'' (Aurivillius, 1903)
***'' Euriphene jacksoni'' (Talbot, 1937)
***'' Euriphene jolyana'' Hecq, 1987
***''Euriphene kahli'' (Holland, 1920)
***'' Euriphene karschi'' (Aurivillius, 1894)
***'' Euriphene larseni'' Hecq, 1994
***'' Euriphene lomaensis'' Belcastro, 1986
***'' Euriphene mawamba'' (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
***'' Euriphene milnei'' (Hewitson, 1865)
***'' Euriphene moloukou'' Hecq, 2002
***'' Euriphene monforti'' Hecq, 1994
***'' Euriphene niepelti'' Neustetter, 1916
***'' Euriphene obani'' Wojtusiak & Knoop, 1994
***'' Euriphene obsoleta'' (Grünberg, 1908)
***'' Euriphene pallidior'' (Hulstaert, 1924)
***'' Euriphene pavo'' (Howarth, 1959)
***'' Euriphene plagiata'' (Aurivillius, 1898)
***'' Euriphene rectangula'' (Schultze, 1920)
***'' Euriphene regula'' Hecq, 1994
***'' Euriphene saphirina'' Karsch, 1894
***'' Euriphene schultzei'' (Aurivillius, 1909)
***'' Euriphene simplex'' (Staudinger, 1891)
***'' Euriphene splendida'' Collins & Larsen, 1997
***''Euriphene tadema'' (Hewitson, 1866)
***''Euriphene veronica'' (Stoll, 1780)
**Unknown species group
***'' Euriphene aurivillii'' (Bartel, 1905)
***'' Euriphene epe'' Pyrcz & Larsen, 2009
***'' Euriphene kiki'' Bernardi & Larsen, 1980
***'' Euriphene romi'' (Aurivillius, 1898)
***'' Euriphene rotundata'' (Holland, 1920)
***'' Euriphene taigola'' Sáfián & Warren-Gash, 2009

References

*Jacques Hecq, 2002 ''Schmetterlinge der Erde'', ''Butterflies of the World'' Part 15 ''Euriphene'' Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern. Goecke & Evers ; Canterbury : Hillside Books.
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 37 et seq.
as ''Diestogyna''

External links

''Euriphene'' types
Royal Museum for Central Africa images
Images representing ''Euriphene''
at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5411343

Limenitidinae
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval