''Pseudohaetera'' is a
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bi ...
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
from the subfamily
Satyrinae
The Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the browns, are a subfamily of the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies). They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known diver ...
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 have a re ...
. The genus was described by F. Martin Brown in 1943.
Species
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Pseudohaetera hypaesia
''Pseudohaetera hypaesia'', the hypaesia satyr, is a butterfly species from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Description
''Pseudohaetera hypaesia'' has a wingspan of about . The uppersides of the wings are transparent with i ...
''
(Hewitson, 1854)
* ''
Pseudohaetera mimica
''Pseudohaetera'' is a Neotropical butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The genus was described by F. Martin Brown in 1943.
Species
* ''Pseudohaetera hypaesia
''Pseudohaetera hypaesia'', the hypaesia sat ...
''
(Rosenberg & Talbot, 1914)
References
Haeterini
Nymphalidae of South America
Butterfly genera
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