Taenaris chionides is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1880. It is endemic to New Guinea in the Australasian realm.[2]
Taenaris chionides | |
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Taenaris chionides aroana in Adalbert Seitz's Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Taenaris |
Species: | T. chionides
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Binomial name | |
Taenaris chionides | |
Synonyms | |
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Subspecies
edit- T. c. chionides
- T. c. kubaryi Staudinger, 1894 (New Guinea - Huon Peninsula)
- T. c. aroana (Fruhstorfer, 1901) (New Guinea)
- T. c. ambigua Stichel, 1906 (New Guinea)
References
editExternal links
editWikispecies has information related to Taenaris chionides.
- Taenaris at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms