Panacea (butterfly)

Panacea
Panacea prola
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Ageroniini
Genus: Panacea
Godman & Salvin, [1883]
Species

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Synonyms
  • Pandora Doubleday, [1848]
  • Pandora Westwood, [1850]

Panacea is a brush-footed butterfly genus found in Central America and South America. It is named after one of Asclepius's daughters Panacea.

Species

Panacea butterfly spreading its wings in El Ávila National Park, Venezuela.

Listed alphabetically:[1]

  • Panacea bleuzeni Plantrou & Attal, 1986
  • Panacea chalcothea (Bates, 1868)
  • Panacea divalis (Bates, 1868)
  • Panacea procilla (Hewitson, 1852)
  • Panacea prola (Doubleday, [1848])
  • Panacea regina (Bates, 1864)

References

  1. ^ Panacea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms