''Euryphura'' is a butterfly
genus in the subfamily
Limenitidinae. The species of this genus are found in the
Afrotropical realm
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
.
Species
Listed alphabetically within species groups:
"''Euryphura'' Staudinger, [1891]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*Subgenus">891]"">"''Euryphura'' Staudinger, [1891]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*Subgenus ''Euryphura''
**The ''porphyrion'' species group
***''Euryphura porphyrion'' (Ward, 1871)
***''Euryphura togoensis'' Suffert, 1904
**The ''achlys'' species group
***''Euryphura achlys'' (Hopffer, 1855)
***''Euryphura chalcis
''Euryphura chalcis'', the common commander, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central Afric ...
'' (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
***'' Euryphura isuka'' Stoneham, 1935
***'' Euryphura plautilla'' (Hewitson, 1865)
**Unknown species group
***'' Euryphura athymoides'' Berger, 1981
***'' Euryphura ducarmei'' Hecq, 1990
*Subgenus ''Crenidomimas'' Karsch, 1894
**'' Euryphura concordia'' (Hopffer, 1855)
Former species
*'' Euryphura nobilis'' Staudinger, 1891 is sometimes placed in its own genus, ''Euryphurana
''Euryphurana nobilis'', the noble commander, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the ...
''.
References
External links
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 36
Limenitidinae
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Otto Staudinger
{{Limenitidinae-stub