Taxila (butterfly)

Taxila
Taxilahaquinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Subfamily: Nemeobiinae
Tribe: Nemeobiini
Subtribe: Abisarina
Genus: Taxila
Doubleday, 1847
Type species
Taxila haquinus
(Fabricius, 1793)

Taxila is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. In the past, several species were included under the genus Abisara. Only three Asian species are included in the genus following revisions.[1]

  • Taxila haquinus (Fabricius, 1793) - Southeast Asia
  • Taxila dora Fruhstorfer, 1904 - Laos and Vietnam
  • Taxila hainana Riley & Godfrey, 1925 - Hainan[2]

References

  1. ^ Espeland, Marianne; Hall, Jason P.W.; DeVries, Philip J.; Lees, David C.; Cornwall, Mark; Hsu, Yu-Feng; Wu, Li-Wei; Campbell, Dana L.; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger; Salzman, Shayla; Ruehr, Sophie; Lohman, David J.; Pierce, Naomi E. (2015). "Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 93: 296–306. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.006.
  2. ^ Callaghan, Curtis J. (2009). "The riodinid butterflies of Vietnam (Lepidoptera)" (PDF). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 63 (2): 61–82.