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Higginsius

Higginsius is a genus of butterflies from north-eastern South America in the family Nymphalidae.

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Melitaeini
Subtribe: Chlosynina
Genus: Higginsius
Hemming, 1964
Synonyms
  • Fulvia Higgins, [1959]

Higginsius is a genus of butterflies from north-eastern South America in the family Nymphalidae.1

Species

  • Higginsius fasciata (Hopffer, 1874) – fasciata crescent (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia)
  • Higginsius miriam (Dognin, 1888) (Ecuador, Colombia)
References

References

  1. "Higginsius Hemming, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms