Epiphile

Epiphile
Epiphile adrasta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Biblidinae
Tribe:	Callicorini
Genus:	Epiphile E. Doubleday, 1845

Epiphile is a genus of banners in the butterfly family Nymphalidae. There are about 19 described species in Epiphile.

Epiphile orea

Species

These 19 species belong to the genus Epiphile:

• Epiphile adrasta Hewitson, 1861 (common banner)
• Epiphile chrysites Latreille, 1823
• Epiphile dilecta Röber, 1913
• Epiphile dinora Fassl, 1912
• Epiphile electra Staudinger, 1886
• Epiphile epicaste Hewitson, 1857
• Epiphile epimenes Hewitson, 1857
• Epiphile eriopis Hewitson, 1857
• Epiphile fassli Röber, 1913
• Epiphile grandis Butler, 1872
• Epiphile hermosa De La Maza & Díaz Francés, 1978
• Epiphile hubneri Hewitson, 1861
• Epiphile kalbreyeri Fassl, 1912
• Epiphile lampethusa Doubleday, 1848
• Epiphile negrina Felder, 1862
• Epiphile orea Hübner, 1816/24
• Epiphile plusios Godman & Salvin, 1883
• Epiphile plutonia Bates, 1864
• Epiphile zipa Mengel, 1899

Further reading

• Ackery, P. R. (1988). "Hostplants and classification: a review of nymphalid butterflies". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 33 (2): 95–203. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1988.tb00446.x.
• Pelham, Jonathan P. (2008). "A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 40: 1–658. doi:10.5962/p.332201. ISSN 0022-4324.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.

External links

• Media related to Epiphile at Wikimedia Commons