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Prepona Boisduval 1836

Agrias Doubleday 1845 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym

Andrew V. Z. Brower
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Containing group: Preponini

Introduction

Large, fast flying, fruit-feeding neotropical nymphalids. Wings of traditional members of the genus are cryptic on the ventral surface and black with iridescent blue transverse bands on the dorsal surface.  Members of the former genus Agrias (P. aedon, P. amydon, P. claudina, P. hewitsonius and P. narcissus), now shown to be embedded within an otherwise paraphyletic Prepona, are quite distinctive and prized by collectors, with hundreds of names applied to the five canopy-dwelling neotropical species. The undersides of their hindwings asre strikingly similar to members of Catagrammini (Biblidinae).

Nomenclature

Eugene Le Moult (1932) described 70 species, subspecies, forms and aberrations for variants of Prepona laertes, all of which are either junior synonyms or unavailable infrasubspecific names. Although some web-based "encyclopedias" treat many of these as names of species, modern researchers (e. g., Lamas 2004) recognize just four subspecies in laertes, the most recent described by Fruhstorfer in 1905 (see P. laertes page).

Other Names for Prepona Boisduval 1836

References

Lamas G ed. 2004. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea - Papiionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.

Le Moult, E. 1932. Études sure les Prepona, Paris: Le Moult Novit. Ent. Suppl. 1: viii + 16pp., 4 plates.

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Scientific Name Prepona demophon
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Prepona_demophon_1
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2003 Wes Kalinowski
Scientific Name Prepona pheridamas
Location Brazil: Mato Grosso, Cristalino Lodge
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Identified By Gill Carter
Life Cycle Stage adult
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Source Pheridamas Prepona (Prepona pheridamas)
Source Collection Neotropical Butterflies
Copyright © 2006 Gill Carter
Scientific Name Agrias claudina
Location Brazil: Mato Grosso, Cristalino Lodge
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Life Cycle Stage adult
View ventral
Source Claudina Agrias (Agrias claudina)
Source Collection Neotropical Butterflies
Copyright © 2002 Will Carter
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Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2013. Prepona Boisduval 1836. Agrias Doubleday 1845 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym. Version 19 May 2013 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Prepona/70544/2013.05.19 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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