Argestina

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Satyrinae
Tribus: Satyrini
Subtribus: Ypthimina
Genus: Argestina
Species: A. inconstans – A. karta – A. pomena – A. waltoni
Name

Argestina Riley, [1923]

Type species: Callerebia waltoni Elwes, 1906
References

Huang, H., 1998b. Two New Rhopalocera from Central Tibet (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 41: 265–269. full article Zobodat (PDF). Reference page.
Huang, H. 1999. Some new butterflies from China 1. Lambillionea 99(4): 642–676. Reference page.

Argestina is a butterfly genus of the Satyrinae. The genus is confined to the Palearctic. All the species are from China and Tibet.
Species

Argestina phantasta Goltz, 1938 Yunnan
Argestina pomena (Evans, 1915)
A. p. shuana (Evans, 1915) Tibet
A. p. chiuna (Bailey, 1935) Tibet
Argestina inconstans (South, 1913) Tibet
Argestina irma Evans, 1923 Tibet
Argestina karta Riley, 1923 Tibet
Argestina nitida Riley, 1923 Tibet
Argestina waltoni (Elwes, 1906) Tibet

References

"Argestina Riley, 1923" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms