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Nessaea

Nessaea batesii from French Guiana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Epicaliini
Genus:	Nessaea Hübner, 1819
Type species
Papilio ancaeus Linnaeus, 1758
Species^[1]
Nessaea aglaura Doubleday [1848] Nessaea ecuadorensis Talbot 1932 Nessaea batesii C. & R. Felder 1860 Nessaea magniplaga Röber 1928 Nessaea hewitsonii C. & R. Felder 1859 Nessaea obrinus Linnaeus 1758 Nessaea faventia Fruhstorfer 1910 Nessaea latifascia Röber 1928 Nessaea romani Bryk 1953 Nessaea regina Salvin 1869 Nessaea thalia Bargmann 1928
Synonyms
Epicallia Erichson, 1848 (non Hübner, [1820]: preoccupied) Polychroa Billberg, 1820

Nessaea is a genus of nymphalid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm. Unlike virtually all other butterflies with blue coloration, the blue colors in this genus are due to pigmentation [pterobilin (biliverdin IXγ)]^[2] rather than iridescence (e.g., Morpho species).

Species

Accepted species:^[1]

Nessaea aglaura Doubleday [1848] – common olivewing, northern nessaea or Aglaura olivewing
Nessaea ecuadorensis Talbot 1932
Nessaea batesii C. & R. Felder 1860 – Bates olivewing
Nessaea magniplaga Röber 1928
Nessaea hewitsonii C. & R. Felder 1859 – Hewitson's olivewing
Nessaea obrinus Linnaeus 1758 – obrina olivewing
Nessaea faventia Fruhstorfer 1910
Nessaea latifascia Röber 1928
Nessaea romani Bryk 1953
Nessaea regina Salvin 1869
Nessaea thalia Bargmann 1928

Unaccepted species:^[1]

Nessaea margaretha Krüger 1933 - unavailable name and infrasubspecific name
Nessaea ancaeus Linnaeus 1767 - junior subjective synonym
Nessaea lesoudieri Le Moult 1933 - junior subjective synonym
Nessaea coniuncta Krüger 1933 - unavailable name and infrasubspecific name

Images

Nessaea aglaura
Nessaea batesii males
Nessaea obrinus female - upperside
Nessaea obrinus male - upperside
Nessaea obrinus - underside
Obrinus olivewing (N. obrinus faventia, male, Brazil
Nessaea hewitsonii

References

Vane-Wright, R.I. 1979. The coloration, identification and phylogeny of Nessaea butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 38: 27–56.

^ ^a ^b ^c Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Nessaea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
^ Doug Taron, "It's all in the structure", Gossamer Tapestry, Retrieved January 25, 2017

External links

Media related to Nessaea at Wikimedia Commons
Images representing Nessaea at Encyclopedia of Life
"Nessaea Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Taxon identifiers
Nessaea	Wikidata: Q2710953 Wikispecies: Nessaea BioLib: 133341 BOLD: 3562 ButMoth: 19492.0 CoL: 92GMX EoL: 19275 GBIF: 1908298 iNaturalist: 148633 IRMNG: 1353935 LepIndex: 159822 NCBI: 442279 Open Tree of Life: 866881

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