Asterope (butterfly)

Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Asterope

Asterope batesii specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Nymphalidae
Tribe:  | Ageroniini
Genus:  | Asterope
Hübner, 1819
Type species
Oreas sapphira

Hübner, [1819]

Diversity
Seven species
Synonyms

* Callithea Feisthamel, 1835
* Callithea Boisduval, 1836 (non Feisthamel, 1835: preoccupied)
* Cyane Felder, 1861

Asterope is a genus of brush-footed butterflies found in the Neotropical realm (South America).

* Asterope marki davisii, underside

## Species

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Listed alphabetically:[1][2]

* Asterope adamsi Lathy
* Asterope batesii (Hewitson, 1850) – Bates' asterope
* Asterope buckleyi (Hewitson, 1869)
* Asterope degandii Hewitson, 1858) – Hewitson's glory
* Asterope fassli Röber
* Asterope freyja Röber
* Asterope leprieuri (Feisthamel, 1835) – Leprieur's glory
* Asterope lugens Druce
* Asterope markii (Hewitson, 1857) – dotted glory
* Asterope optima (Butler, 1869)
* Asterope salvini Staudinger
* Asterope sapphira (Hübner, [1816])
* Asterope whitelyi Salvin, 1869

## References

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1. ^ Asterope at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. ^ Asterope, Biolib

* Jenkins, D. W. 1987 Neotropical Nymphalidae VI. Revision of Asterope (=Callithea Auct.). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 114, 1-66

## External links

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* TOL

Taxon identifiers

Asterope|

* Wikidata: Q2714434
* Wikispecies: Asterope
* BioLib: 414553
* BOLD: 274149
* ButMoth: 3021.0
* CoL: 9235H
* EoL: 14469
* GBIF: 1896877
* iNaturalist: 488465
* Insecta.pro: 13937
* ITIS: 656007
* LepIndex: 158730
* NCBI: 442283
* Open Tree of Life: 5028637
* WoRMS: 127513

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