Batesia is a monotypic butterfly genus of the family Nymphalidae. It contains only Batesia hypochlora, the painted beauty or also known as the pastel papillion.
| Batesia hypochlora | |
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| Batesia hypochlora. Dorsal view (left) and ventral view (right) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Ageroniini |
| Genus: | Batesia C. & R. Felder, 1862 |
| Species: | B. hypochlora |
| Binomial name | |
| Batesia hypochlora C. & R. Felder, 1862[1] | |
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- ↑ Batesia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Parque Nacional Sangay
- ↑ The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1868)
- ↑ Butterflies of Amazonia
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