Ariadne (butterfly)

Ariadne is a genus of nymphalid butterflies, commonly called castors, found from Sub-Saharan Africa to South-East Asia. It was erected by Thomas Horsfield in 1829.[1] The genus was named after Ariadne the daughter of Minos, king of Crete.

Ariadne
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Biblidini
Genus: Ariadne
Horsfield, [1829]
Synonyms

Ergolis Boisduval, [1836]

Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

  • Ariadne actisanes (Hewitson, 1875)
  • Ariadne albifascia (Joicey & Talbot, 1921)
  • Ariadne ariadne (Linnaeus, 1763) – angled castor (India, China, Ceylon, Indonesia, Vietnam)
  • Ariadne celebensis Holland, 1898
  • Ariadne enotrea (Cramer, [1779]) – African castor
  • Ariadne isaeus (Wallace, 1869) – lesser angled castor
  • Ariadne merione (Cramer, [1777]) – common castor (Ceylon, India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam)
  • Ariadne merionoides (Holland, 1891)
  • Ariadne obscura (C. & R. Felder, [1867])
  • Ariadne pagenstecheri (Suffert, 1904) – Pagenstecher's castor (Cameroon, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Zaire, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
  • Ariadne personata (Joicey & Talbot, 1921)
  • Ariadne specularia (Fruhstorfer, 1899) (Cambodia, Vietnam)
  • Ariadne taeniata (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Indonesia)
  • Ariadne timora (Wallace, 1869) (Timor)
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gollark: I kind of prefer g, but I guess if it's a giveway I wouldn't mind h too.
gollark: "we like to look at things as if it all for us, as if something is so grand about us, in truth we can only be grand if we so choose, and can properly attain it. but if we can, then what ever IT is was never for us. and thus only a blip in time, our memory and all of action erased as if it was never there, what is so special about us? nothing really." sounds pretty nihilist.
gollark: No, seems like rebranded nihilism.

References
  1. Savela, Markku (December 22, 2018). "Ariadne Horsfield, [1829]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 11, 2020.


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