| Greta | |
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| Greta morgane | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Ithomiini |
| Genus: | Greta Hemming, 1934 |
| Type species | |
| Papilio diaphanus (Drury, 1773) | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Greta is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Arthur Francis Hemming in 1934. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae, and are found in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Species
Arranged alphabetically:[1][2]
- Greta alphesiboea (Hewitson, 1869)
- Greta andromica (Hewitson, [1854]) – andromica clearwing
- Greta annette (Guérin-Ménéville, [1844]) – white-spotted clearwing
- Greta cubana (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1862) – Cuban clearwing
- Greta clavijoi
- Greta depauperata (Boisduval, 1870)
- Greta dercetis (Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847)
- Greta diaphanus (Drury, [1773]) – Antillean clearwing
- Greta enigma (Haensch, 1905)
- Greta esula (Hewitson, 1855)
- Greta gabiglooris (Brabant & Bischler, 2005) – Gabi's clearwing
- Greta gardneri (Weeks, 1901)
- Greta hermana (Haensch, 1903)
- Greta libethris (C & R Felder, 1867) – Libethris clearwing
- Greta lojana (Vitale & Bollino, 2001)
- Greta lydia (Weymer, 1899)
- Greta morgane (Geyer, 1833) – thick-tipped greta, Morgane clearwing, rusty clearwing
- Greta nero (Hewitson, 1854) – Nero clearwing
- Greta ochretis (Haensch, 1903)
- Greta oneidodes (Kaye, 1918)
- Greta ortygia (Weymer, 1890) – orthygia clearwing
- Greta oto (Hewitson, 1854) – glasswing
- Greta polissena (Hewitson, [1863]) – Polissena clearwing
- Greta telesilla (Weymer, 1899)
- Greta theudelinda (Hewitson, [1861])
References
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- ↑ "Greta Hemming, 1934" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Nymphalidae Study Group website Archived 2009-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
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