Agrias aedon

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| image_caption = Plate accompanying the original description in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

| taxon = Agrias aedon

| authority = Hewitson, [1848]

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  • Agrias salvini Fruhstorfer, 1895
  • Agrias aedon ab. magdalenae Schultze, 1928
  • Agrias aedon aedon schultzei Rebillard, 1961
  • Agrias aedon f. denhezi Descimon & Mast, 1975

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Agrias aedon, the Aedon agrias, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/charaxinae/agrias/ "Agrias Doubleday, 1844"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms It is found in the Neotropical realm.

Subspecies

  • A. a. aedon (Colombia, Venezuela, possibly Panama)
  • A. a. rodriguezi Schaus, 1918 (Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica)
  • A. a. pepitoensis Michael, 1930 (western Colombia)

References

  • Rebillard, P. (1961), "Révision systématique des Lépidoptères Nymphalides du genre Agrias". Memoires du Museum National d`Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie A, Zoologie, Tome XXII, Fasicule 2.

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Category:Charaxinae

Category:Butterflies described in 1848

Category:Nymphalidae of South America

Category:Butterflies of Central America

Category:Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson

Category:Lepidoptera of Mexico

Category:Lepidoptera of Colombia

Category:Lepidoptera of Venezuela

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