Tarsocera

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Dirini
Genus: Tarsocera
Species: T. cassina – T. cassus – T. dicksoni – T. fulvina – T. imitator – T. namaquensis – T. southeyae
Name

Tarsocera Butler, [1899]

Type species: Leptoneura cassina Butler, 1868
Synonyms

Cassus van Son, 1955

References

Dickson, C.G.C., 1969: A new species of Tarsocera Butler (Lepidoptera: Satyridae) from the Cape Province. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, 81: 153–155.
Vári, L., 1971: South African Lepidoptera, 5: Revision of the genus Tarsocera Butler, 1898 and descriptions of new Satyrinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 27 (10): 193–223.
Williams, M. C., 2008. Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. 7th Edn. (April 2007).

Tarsocera is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Species

Tarsocera cassina (Butler, 1868)
Tarsocera cassus (Linnaeus, 1764)
Tarsocera dicksoni (van Son, 1962)
Tarsocera fulvina Vári, 1971
Tarsocera imitator Vári, 1971
Tarsocera namaquensis Vári, 1971
Tarsocera southeyae Dickson, 1969

External links

"Tarsocera Butler, [1899]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms