Haeterini
Haetera piera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Haeterini
Herrich-Schäffer, 1864
Genera

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The Haeterini are one of the smaller tribes of the Satyrinae in the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterfly) family. The tribe occurs exclusively in tropical rain forests in the Neotropical realm.

It contains 29 described species and 39 subspecies[lower-alpha 1] classified in the following five genera:[lower-alpha 2]

There are differences in the shape of the forewings between males and females, with males having wing shapes that are more efficient in gliding flight performance.[1]

Notes

  1. But these estimates remain contentious, and at least 5 more species can be recognized based on the multispecies coalescent model as suggested by Matos-Maraví et al. (2019)
  2. According to TOLweb, Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms (Savela), Wikispecies, and nymphalidae.net Archived 8 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine which all seem to be based on Lamas, G. (2004).
  3. Markku Savela's Pierella page says this is invalid and the correct citation is Herrich-Schäffer, 1865, however no source is given for this conclusion and the LepIndex[2] (among other sources) consider Westwood, [1851] to be correct.

References

  1. Cespedes, Ann; Penz, Carla M.; DeVries, Philip J. (5 December 2014). Coulson, Tim (ed.). "Cruising the rain forest floor: butterfly wing shape evolution and gliding in ground effect". Journal of Animal Ecology. 84 (3): 808–816. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12325. ISSN 0021-8790.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pierella". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
  • Lamas, G. (ed), 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea – Papiionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.
  • Matos-Maraví, P., Wahlberg, N., Antonelli, A. & Penz, C.M., 2019. Species limits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): reconciling classical taxonomy with the multispecies coalescent. Systematic Entomology, in press. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12352.
  • Wahlberg, N. & Andrew V.Z.B., 2009. Haeterini Herrich-Schaeffer 1864. Version 2 June 2009 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Haeterini/70265/2009.06.02 Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine in The Tree of Life Web Project.


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