Orsotriaena
Andrew V. Z. Brower
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The genus is widely distributed from western India to Australia.
Orsotriaena is the sister taxon of Zipaetis in the analysis of Peña et al. (2006). Unpublished results (Wahlberg & Brower) place both of these taxa with Erites.
Characteristics
Orsotriaena was placed in Mycalesina by Miller (1968), but illustrations of the larva and pupa in Parsons (1999) show them to be very different from Mycalesis immature stages.
References
Corbet AS, Pendlebury HM, and Eliot JN. 1992. The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
Miller LD. 1968. The higher classification, phylogeny and zoogeography of the Satyridae (Lepidoptera). Mem. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 24: 1-174.
Parsons M. 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology. Academic Press, San Diego.
Peņa C, Wahlberg N, Weingartner E, Kodandaramaiah U, Nylin S, Freitas AVL, and Brower AVZ. 2006. Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 40: 29-49.
Title Illustrations
| Scientific Name | Orsotriaena medus |
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| Source | CSIRO Entomology |
| Scientific Name | Orsotriaena medus |
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| Location | Panti Forest, Johor, Malaysia |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source | Nigger (Orsotriaena medus) |
| Source Collection | Flickr |
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| Copyright | © 2008 Lip Kee Yap |
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- First online 16 November 2006
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Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2006. Orsotriaena . Version 09 December 2006 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Orsotriaena/88325/2006.12.09 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
