Sais (butterfly)
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''Sais'' 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 biogeogra ...
genus of clearwing ( ithomiine) butterflies, named by
Jacob Hübner Jacob Hübner (20 June 1761 – 13 September 1826, in Augsburg) was a German entomologist. He was the author of ''Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge'' (1796–1805), a founding work of entomology. Scientific career Hübner was the author of '' ...
in 1816. They are in the brush-footed butterfly 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 ...
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Species

Arranged alphabetically: *'' Sais browni'' Takahashi, 1977 *'' Sais rosalia'' (Cramer,
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References

Ithomiini Nymphalidae of South America Nymphalidae genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner {{Danainae-stub