Evenus (butterfly)
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''Evenus'' is a
butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
genus in the family
Lycaenidae Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of ...
, with species ranging from
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South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
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Species list

* '' Evenus regalis'' (Cramer, 1775) –
type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
Sermeño, J. M., Robbins, R. K., Lamas, G., & Gámez, J. A. (2013). Cría en laboratorio de las" joyas vivientes" de El Salvador, Evenus regalis (Cramer) y Evenus batesii (Hewitson)(Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). ''Bioma''. * '' Evenus coronata'' (Hewitson, 1865)– crowned hairstreakNeild, A. F., & Bálint, Z. (2014). Notes on the identity of Evenus coronata (Hewitson, 1865)(Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini) with the description of a remarkably overlooked sibling species. ''Tropical Lepidoptera Research'', 105-120. * '' Evenus gabriela'' (Cramer, 1775)Ríos-Málaver, C., & Vargas-Ch, J. I. EL GÉNERO EVENUS HÜBNER (1819) Y SU PRESENCIA EN COLOMBIA (LEPIDOPTERA: LYCAENIDAE) THE GENUS EVENUS HÜBNER (1819) AND ITS PRESENCE IN COLOMBIA (LEPIDOPTERA: LYCAENIDAE). * '' Evenus batesii'' (Hewitson, 1865) * '' Evenus candidus'' (Druce, 1907) * '' Evenus sponsa'' (Möschler, 1877) * '' Evenus sumptuosa'' (Druce, 1907) * '' Evenus tagyra'' (Hewitson, 1865) * '' Evenus floralia'' (Druce, 1907) * '' Evenus temathea'' (Hewitson, 1865) * '' Evenus satyroides'' (Hewitson, 1865) * '' Evenus latreillii'' (Hewitson, 1865) * '' Evenus felix'' (Neild and Balint, 2014)


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Taxonomy Distribution Image of ''Evenus regalis''
''Evenus'' images at EOL
Eumaeini Lycaenidae of South America Lycaenidae genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner {{Eumaeini-stub