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
In Himachal Pradesh, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Hestina
Species:
H. nicevillei
Binomial name
Hestina nicevillei
(Moore, [1895])
Synonyms
  • Parhestina nicevillei Moore, [1895]
  • Diagora nicevillei
  • Parhestina jermyni Druce, 1911
  • Hestina ouvradi Riley, 1939

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)
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References
  1. "Hestina Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Hestina nicevillei Moore, 1895 – Scarce Siren". Butterflies of India. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  3. 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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