Narope is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, and includes species that present inconspicuously marked patterns on mottled brown, beige, or cinnamon wings.The forewings are falcate.The submedian of the forewing is strongly sinuous in the male, this formation being closely associated with the presence of a tuft in the male (as a sexual character) on the under surface beneath this vein; with the hair-tuft corresponds a shiny spot at the costal margin on the upperside of the hindwing. The precostal cell is extraordinarily large and well developed; the precostal vein is simple, nearly straight and proximally directed. The cell is obliquely closed by a rather short and straight lower discocellular.[1][2] The genus includes 16 species.[3][4]

Narope
Narope obidos
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Brassolini
Genus: Narope
Doubleday, [1849]
Type species
Narope cyllastros
Doubleday, [1849]
Diversity
17 species

Species

edit

References

edit
  1. Fruhstorfer, H., 1913. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen.
  2. Smart, P., 1976 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World in Color. London, Salamander:Encyclopedie des papillons. Lausanne, Elsevier Sequoia (French language edition) ISBN 9780948427046 ISBN 0600313816
  3. "Narope Doubleday, [1849]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  4. Casagrande, M. M. (2002). Naropini Stichel, taxonomia e imaturos (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Brassolinae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 19(2), 467 - 569. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000200012.