Amiga (butterfly)

Amiga is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae erected by Shinichi Nakahara, Keith R. Willmott and Marianne Espeland in 2019. Amiga arnaca, formerly of the genus Chloreuptychia, is the only species in the genus Amiga. In 2019, Nakahara et al. described this new genus after molecular phylogenetic research showed it was not closely related to the other species of Chloreuptychia.[2]

Amiga
Amiga arnaca indianacristoi, Venezuela
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Amiga
Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, 2019
Species:
A. arnaca
Binomial name
Amiga arnaca
(Fabricius, 1776)
Synonyms[1]
  • Papilio arnaca Fabricius, 1776
  • Papilio ebusa Cramer, [1780]
  • Euptychia arnaea f. priamis d'Almeida, 1922
  • Chloreuptychia arnaca (Fabricius, 1776)
  • Euptychia ebusa (Cramer, [1780])

Amiga arnaca is found from southern Mexico through most of Central and South America to southern Brazil, and is common in rain and cloud forests. The larvae feed on grasses, including Eleusine, Ichnanthus, Lasiacis, Oplismenus, and Paspalum.[2]

Subspecies
  • Amiga arnaca adela Nakahara & Espeland, 2019
  • Amiga arnaca arnaca (Fabricius, 1776)
  • Amiga arnaca indianacristoi Nakahara & Marín, 2019
  • Amiga arnaca sericeella (Bates, 1865)
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References
  1. Savela, Markku. "Chloreuptychia arnaca (Fabricius, 1776)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  2. Nakahara, Shinichi; Lamas, Gerardo; Tyler, Stephanie; Marín, Mario Alejandro; et al. (2019). "A revision of the new genus Amiga Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, gen. n., described for Papilio arnaca Fabricius, 1776 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)". ZooKeys. Pensoft. 821: 85–152. doi:10.3897/zookeys.821.31782. PMC 6367311. PMID 30740021.


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