Hestina nicevillei
Hestina nicevillei, the scarce siren, is a species of siren butterfly (Apaturinae) found in the western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal and to China and Vietnam.[1][2][3]
| Hestina nicevillei | |
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| In Himachal Pradesh, India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Hestina |
| Species: | H. nicevillei |
| Binomial name | |
| Hestina nicevillei (Moore, [1895]) | |
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Subspecies
- H. n. nicevillei (western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal)
- H. n. jermyni (Druce, 1911) (central Himalayas)
- H. n. ouvradi Riley, 1939 (China (Yunnan, south-east Tibet))
- H. n. nigra Morishita, 1997 (central Nepal)
- H. n. magna Omoto & Funahashi, 2004 (northern Vietnam)
References
- "Hestina Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- "Hestina nicevillei Moore, 1895 – Scarce Siren". Butterflies of India. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
- Omoto, Keiichi; Funahashi, Akio (2004). "A new subspecies of Hestina nicevillei (Moore, 1896) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) discovered in Northern Vietnam". Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan. 55 (3): 203–208 – via BioStor.
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