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Stub-tailed Satyr (Taygetis virgilia)

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Taygetis virgilia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Taygetis
Species:
T. virgilia
Binomial name
Taygetis virgilia
(Cramer, [1776])[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio virgilia Cramer, [1776]
  • Papilio rebecca Fabricius, 1793
  • Taygetis nympha Butler, 1868
  • Taygetis erubescens Butler, 1868
  • Taygetis virgilia f. daguana Bargmann, 1928
  • Taygetis erubescens ab. pseudorufomarginata Bargmann, 1929

Taygetis virgilia is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to Honduras, Colombia, Suriname and Guyana.

References

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  1. ^ "Taygetis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms