Atlantea

Atlantea
Atlantea tulita
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Nymphalinae
Tribe:	Melitaeini
Genus:	Atlantea Higgins, [1959]

Atlantea is a genus of butterflies from the Caribbean in the family Nymphalidae.

Species

Listed alphabetically:

• Atlantea cryptadia Sommer & Schwartz, 1980 – Hispaniolan checkerspot (Hispaniola)
• Atlantea pantoni (Kaye, 1906) – Jamaican checkerspot (Jamaica)
• Atlantea perezi (Herrich-Schäffer, 1862) – Cuban checkerspot (Cuba)
• Atlantea tulita (Dewitz, 1877) – harlequin butterfly (Puerto Rico)

References

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