Denivia is a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. There are at least 16 described species in Denivia, found in Central and South America.[1][2]
| Denivia | |
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| Denivia hemon, Colombia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Theclinae |
| Tribe: | Eumaeini |
| Genus: | Denivia Johnson, 1992 |
The Denivia was formerly considered a synonym of the genus Theritas. In phylogenetic studies published in 2019, the following species were classified in the genus Denivia.
Species
editThese species belong to the genus Denivia:
- Denivia acontius (Goodson, 1945) - Panama south to the Amazonian Region
- Denivia adamsi (H.H. Druce, 1909) - Peru (generic placement uncertain)
- Denivia arene (Goodson, 1945) - Ecuador and Peru
- Denivia augustinula (Goodson, 1945) - Mexico to northern Colombia
- Denivia augustula (W.F. Kirby, 1877) - Costa Rica and Panama to western Ecuador
- Denivia chaluma (Schaus, 1902) - central and southern Brazil
- Denivia curitabaensis (K. Johnson, 1992) - Brazil
- Denivia deniva (Hewitson, 1874) - Argentina and Southern Brazil
- Denivia espiritosanto Bálint & Moser, 2007 - eastern Brazil
- Denivia hemon (Cramer, 1775) - Neotropics
- Denivia lisus (Stoll, 1790) - Mexico to southern Brazil
- Denivia monica (Hewitson, 1867) - Venezuela to Bolivia
- Denivia phegeus (Hewitson, 1865) - Brazil
- Denivia silma (Martins, Faynel, & Robbins, 2016) - Amazonian Region south to Paraguay and Brazil
- Denivia theocritus (Fabricius, 1793) - Mexico to western Ecuador
- Denivia viresco (H.H. Druce, 1907) - Amazonian Region
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Denivia phegeus, Brasil -
Denivia theocritus, Honduras -
Denivia lisus, Surinam -
Denivia espiritosanto, Brasil -
Denivia monica, Perú -
Denivia chaluma, Argentina
References
edit- ^ "GBIF, Denivia". Retrieved 2024-12-07.
- ^ Martins, Ananda Regina Pereira; Duarte, Marcelo; Robbins, Robert K. (2019). "Phylogenetic Classification of the Atlides Section of the Eumaeini (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae)". Zootaxa. 4563. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4563.1.6. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
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