Diaphanos

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: Pronophilina
Genus: Diaphanos
Species: D. curvignathos – D. fuscus – D. huberi
Name

Diaphanos Adams & Bernard, 1981

Type species: Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981
Note:

Viloria placed this genus in the Erebiina, and Lamas and Viloria adopted this placement in the Neotropical Checklist
Wahlberg placed this genus in the Pronophilina

References

Adams, M.J. & G.I. Bernard, 1981, Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 343–373.
Gerardo Lamas and Ángel L. Viloria, 2004, Nymphalidae. Satyrinae. Tribe Satyrini. Subtribe Erebiina, pp. 215-216. In: Lamas, G. (Ed.), Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In: Heppner, J. B. (Ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Volume 5A. Gainesville, Association for Tropical Lepidoptera; Scientific Publishers.
Ángel L. Viloria, 2004, Some Gondwanan and Laurasian elements in the satyrine fauna of South America (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tropical Lepidoptera 15(1/2): 53–55 (published in 2007)

Diaphanos is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. There are three recognised species in the Neotropics, and one undescribed subspecies of D. huberi.[1]
Species

Diaphanos curvignathos Viloria, 1994
Diaphanos fuscus Viloria, 1994
Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981

Taxonomy

The type species by original designation is Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981 from the Cordillera de Merida in Venezuela.[2] It was originally considered to be a monobasic genus, but two additional species were described from separate mountaintops in the Venezuelan Andes.[3]
References

Gerardo Lamas 2004 Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. CheckList: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea Scientific Publishers.
Adams & Bernard (1981) Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 71:351

Viloria, A. L. (1994) "High Andean Pronophilini from Venezuela: Two new species of Diaphanos (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)" Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48:180-189

Adams, M.J. & G.I. Bernard, 1981, Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 343-373.