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Libytheana Michener 1943

Akito Y. Kawahara, Andrew V. Z. Brower, and Niklas Wahlberg
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Containing group: Libytheinae

Introduction

The genus Libytheana represents the New World snout butterflies, with one widespread species (L. carinenta) ranging from the U. S. to South America, and three differentiated Caribbean endemic species.

Characteristics

Species of the genus Libytheana are distinguished by the following seven synapomorphies: R3 of forewing with base approximately midway between apex of discal cell and fork of R4,R5, band between forewing M1 and M3 closer to discal cell than wing margin, trifid male eighth abdominal tergum, dorsally curved aedeagus, saccus enlarged anteriorly, reduced female seventh abdominal sternum, microtracheae present on membrane of corpus bursae (Kawahara, in press).

References

Kawahara, A. Y. 2006. Biology of the snout butterflies (Nymphalidae: Libytheinae), Part 2: Libytheana Michener. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 57(3): 265-277.

Kawahara, A. Y. (accepted). Revision of the Extant and Fossil Snout Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology, Monographs. Lanham, Maryland.

Smith, D. S., Miller, L. D. & Miller, J. Y. 1994 The butterflies of the West Indies and South Florida. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Title Illustrations
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Scientific Name Libytheana carinenta
Location Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source american snout butterfly
Source Collection Flickr
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Copyright © 2006 kimberly rama fleming
Scientific Name Libytheana carinenta
Location Florida USA
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Identified By John Calhoun
Life Cycle Stage Adult
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Copyright © Niklas Wahlberg
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Akito Y. Kawahara
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA


Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

Niklas Wahlberg
University of Turku, Finland

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Kawahara, Akito Y., Andrew V. Z. Brower, and Niklas Wahlberg. 2013. Libytheana Michener 1943. Version 19 May 2013 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Libytheana/12185/2013.05.19 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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