Blepolenis

Blepolenis
Blepolenis batea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Brassolini
Genus: Blepolenis
Julius Röber, 1906

Blepolenis is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae and subfamily Morphinae.[1][2]

They are large, brown butterflies with broad, rounded wings. The upperside is dark brown with a large, brownish-orange field at the base of each wing. The hindwing is grayish-brown, finely patterned (horizontally) with two large eyespots on each hindwing. The underside of the forewing has a broad, light field in the middle.[3]

Species

  • Blepolenis bassus (C. & R. Felder, [1867])
  • Blepolenis batea (Hübner, [1821])
  • Blepolenis catharinae (Stichel, 1902)

References

Wikispecies has information related to Blepolenis.
  1. ^ Butterflies of America
  2. ^ "Blepolenis Röber, 1906" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ Carter, D. 1994.Butterflies from around the world. Teknologisk Forlag. ISBN 82-512-0438-0 (DK Handbooks: Butterflies and Moths)


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