Biology:Episcada

Short description: Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Episcada
Episcada apuleia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Danainae
Tribe:	Ithomiini
Genus:	Episcada Godman & Salvin, [1879]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Prittwitzia Brown & Ebert, 1970 Ceratiscada Brown & Ferreira d'Almeida, 1970

Episcada is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1879. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.

Species

Arranged alphabetically:

• Episcada apuleia (Hewitson, 1868)
• Episcada canilla (Hewitson, 1874)
• Episcada carcinia Schaus, 1902
• Episcada clausina (Hewitson, 1876)
• Episcada doto (Hübner, [1806])
• Episcada hemixanthe (C. & R. Felder, 1865)
• Episcada hymen Haensch, 1905
• Episcada hymenaea (Prittwitz, 1865)
• Episcada mira (Hewitson, 1877)
• Episcada philoclea (Hewitson, [1855])
• Episcada polita Weymer, 1899
• Episcada salvinia (Bates, 1864)
• Episcada sulphurea Haensch, 1905
• Episcada sylpha Haensch, 1905
• Episcada ticidella (Hewitson, 1869)
• Episcada vitrea d'Almeida & Mielke, 1967

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3055788 entry