Biology:Barbicornis
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Barbicornis is a monotypic butterfly genus of the family Riodinidae with its single species Barbicornis basilis present in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. [1]
The species is easily recognizable by the very small hindwings provided with a long apex of the tail on the lower
Subspecies
- Barbicornis basilis basilis (Paraguay, Brazil: Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro)
- Barbicornis basilis acroleuca Berg, 1896 [2] (Paraguay)
- Barbicornis basilis bahiana Azzará, 1978 (Brazil: Bahia)
- Barbicornis basilis ephippium Thieme, 1907 [3]
- Barbicornis basilis marginata Seitz, 1913 (Brazil: Bahia) brownish black with an orange-red collar.The apical margin of the forewing and the whole distal margin of the hindwing, including the xiphoid, honey-yellow. Bahia. [4]
- Barbicornis basilis mona Westwood, 1851 [5] (Paraguay, Brazil: Espírito Santo)
- Barbicornis basilis paraopeba Azzará, 1978 (Brazil: Minas Gerais)
- Barbicornis basilis tucumana Thieme, 1907 (Argentina)
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Sources
- ↑ "barbicornis Staudinger, [1887]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Berg, C. 1896 Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural "Bernardino Rivadavia". Buenos Aires 5: 1
- ↑ Thieme, O., 1907. Familiae Lemoniidarum supplementa cum notis (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 52: 1-16, pl.1. BHL, plate (Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul)
- ↑ Seitz
1913. Family: Riodinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain..
- ↑ Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls. 31–80 + Suppl.pl. London
- ↑ Thieme, 1907 op.cit.
External links
- Butterflies of America High resolution images of type specimens.
- TOL
Wikidata ☰ Q1764201 entry
