Orsotriaena
Orsotriaena medus
Andrew V. Z. BrowerIntroduction
A monotypic genus, 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 Unpublished results (Wahlberg & Brower) place both of these taxa with Erites.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.
Pe?a 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.
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