Hestina is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
butterflies
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 ...
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 ha ...
subfamily
Apaturinae
The Apaturinae are a subfamily of butterflies that includes many species commonly called emperors.
Description
Strikingly-coloured, with cryptic underwing. A distinguishing character of the subfamily is the green proboscis.
Agathina emperor ( ...
. The genus is found in the East
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
and
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...
.
Known larval food plants are ''
Celtis
''Celtis'' is a genus of about 60–70 species of deciduous trees, commonly known as hackberries or nettle trees, in the hemp family Cannabaceae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution.
Description
''Celtis'' species are generally medium-sized tree ...
'' and, for one species, ''
Trema
Trema may refer to:
* a Greek and Latin root meaning ''hole''
* Trema, a term for the two dots (diacritic)
** Tréma, (French), a diaeresis
* ''Trema'' (plant), a genus of about 15 species of small evergreen trees
* Tréma (record label), a Fr ...
'' (Ulmaceae). These include ''
Celtis boninensis'' Japan, ''
Celtis formosana'' Taiwan, ''
Celtis nervosa'' Taiwan, ''
Celtis jessoensis'', ''
Celtis sinensis
''Celtis sinensis'' (English language, English: Japanese hackberry, Chinese hackberry; Chinese language, Chinese: ; Japanese language, Japanese: ) is a species of flowering plant in the Cannabis, hemp family, Cannabaceae, that is native to slope ...
'', ''
Trema orientalis
''Trema orientale'' (sometimes ''Trema orientalis'') is a species of flowering tree in the hemp family, Cannabaceae. The basionym of ''T. orientalis'', ''Celtis orientalis'' was originally described and published in ''Species Plantarum ...
''. ''Hestina nama'' larvae feed on ''
Oreocnide'' (Urticaceae).
Species
In alphabetical order:
*''
Hestina assimilis''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
*''
Hestina dissimilis''
Hall, 1935
*''
Hestina divona''
(Hewitson, 1861) – Sulawesi sorcerer
*''
Hestina japonica''
(C. & R. Felder, 1862)
*''
Hestina jermyni''
Druce, 1911
*''
Hestina mena''
Moore, 1858
*''
Hestina mimetica''
Butler, 1874
*''
Hestina nama''
(Doubleday, 1844) – Circe
*''
Hestina namoides''
de Nicéville, 1900
*''
Hestina nicevillei''
(Moore, 895
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Year 895 ( DCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Europe
* The Magyars are expelled from western Siberia, and settle in the Carpathian Basin, under the leadership of Árpád ( ...
*''
Hestina ouvradi''
Riley, 1939
*''
Hestina persimilis''
(Westwood, 850
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Year 850 ( DCCCL) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* February 1 – King Ramiro I dies in his palace at Santa María del Naranco (near Oviedo), after an 8-year reign ...
– Siren
*''
Hestina risna
Hestina is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae subfamily Apaturinae. The genus is found in the East Palearctic and Southeast Asia.
Known larval food plants are ''Celtis'' and, for one species, ''Trema'' (Ulmaceae). These include '' ...
''
*''
Hestina waterstradti
Hestina is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae subfamily Apaturinae. The genus is found in the East Palearctic and Southeast Asia.
Known larval food plants are ''Celtis'' and, for one species, ''Trema (plant), Trema'' (Ulmaceae). Th ...
''
Watkins, 1928
External links
"''Hestina'' Westwood, [1850]"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
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Apaturinae
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at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Apaturinae
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by John O. Westwood
Taxa described in 1850
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