Diaphanos

Diaphanos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Satyrinae
Genus:	Diaphanos; Adams & Bernard, 1981
Type species
	Diaphanos huberi; Adams & Bernard, 1981
Species
	See text

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.

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. It was originally considered to be a monobasic genus, but two additional species were described from separate mountaintops in the Venezuelan Andes.

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.

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[Lamas2004-1] Gerardo Lamas 2004 Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. CheckList: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea Scientific Publishers.

[original-2] Adams & Bernard (1981) Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 71:351

[Viloria94-3] Viloria, A. L. (1994) "High Andean Pronophilini from Venezuela: Two new species of Diaphanos (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)" Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 48:180-189