Taenaris chionides

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
Taenaris chionides aroana in Adalbert Seitz's Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Taenaris
Species:
T. chionides
Binomial name
Taenaris chionides
(Godman & Salvin, 1880)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tenaris chionides Godman & Salvin, 1880
  • Tenaris kubaryi Staudinger, 1894
  • Tenaris kubaryi aroana Fruhstorfer, 1901
  • Tanearis chionides kubaryi f. ambigua Stichel, 1906

Subspecies
  • 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
  1. Godman & Salvin, 1880 Descriptions of some supposed new Species of Butterflies from New Guinea Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 609-614, pl. 56
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  • Taenaris at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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