Epiphile

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: Biblidinae
Tribus: Biblidini
Subtribus: Epiphilina
Genus: Epiphile
Species: E. adrasta – E. chrysites – E. dilecta – E. epicaste – E. epimenes – E. eriopis – E. grandis – E. hermosa – E. hubneri – E. iblis – E. imperator – E. lampethusa – E. latifasciata – E. neildi – E. orea
Name

Epiphile Doubleday, 1844

Type species: Temenis orea Hübner, [1823]

Epiphile adrasta

References

Attal, S, 1999. New Neotropical Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 104(4): 369–374. Reference page.
Attal, Stéphane ; Roger Hiltbrand & Gabriel Rodriguez, 2006, Nouveaux Nymphalidae néotropicaux (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera), Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 111 (1): 35–42.
Jenkins, D.W., 1986: Neotropical Nymphalidae. V. Revision of Epiphile. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, 101: 1–70.
Lamas, Gerardo, 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist:Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea

Epiphile is a genus of banners in the butterfly family Nymphalidae. There are about 19 described species in Epiphile.[1][2][3]
Epiphile orea

Species

These 19 species belong to the genus Epiphile:

Epiphile adrasta Hewitson, 1861 (common banner)
Epiphile chrysites Latreille, 1823
Epiphile dilecta Röber, 1913
Epiphile dinora Fassl, 1912
Epiphile electra Staudinger, 1886
Epiphile epicaste Hewitson, 1857
Epiphile epimenes Hewitson, 1857
Epiphile eriopis Hewitson, 1857
Epiphile fassli Röber, 1913
Epiphile grandis Butler, 1872
Epiphile hermosa De La Maza & Díaz Francés, 1978
Epiphile hubneri Hewitson, 1861
Epiphile kalbreyeri Fassl, 1912
Epiphile lampethusa Doubleday, 1848
Epiphile negrina Felder, 1862
Epiphile orea Hübner, 1816/24
Epiphile plusios Godman & Salvin, 1883
Epiphile plutonia Bates, 1864
Epiphile zipa Mengel, 1899

References

"Epiphile Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Epiphile". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Epiphile genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

Ackery, P. R. (1988). "Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 33 (2): 95–203. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00446.x.
Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 40. ISSN 0022-4324.
Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.