Taygetis mermeria, the mermeria wood nymph, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found throughout the Neotropical realm from Mexico to Bolivia. The habitat consists of rainforests and cloudforests.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Taygetis |
| Species: | T. mermeria
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Subspecies
edit- Taygetis mermeria mermeria (Suriname, Bolivia, Brazil: Amazonas)
- Taygetis mermeria excavata Butler, 1868 (Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras)
- Taygetis mermeria griseomarginata Miller, 1978 (Mexico)
See also Taygetis mermeria f. crameri Weymer, 1910 [Unknown source, but see Weymer, 1924: 185.[3] (also in german [1]].
References
edit- ^ "Taygetis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes
- ^ Weymer, G. (1924). 4. Satyridae. In. The Macrolepidoptera of the world: a systematic account of all the known Macrolepidoptera. (Alternative title: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde: eine Systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge). Seitz, A. (Ed.). Vol. 5: (part 2). pp. 173–283. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.126182.