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

  1. "barbicornis Staudinger, [1887]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Berg, C. 1896 Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural "Bernardino Rivadavia". Buenos Aires 5: 1
  3. 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)
  4. Seitz 1913. Family: Riodinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain..
  5. 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
  6. Thieme, 1907 op.cit.

Wikidata ☰ Q1764201 entry