Catonephele

Catonephele
Catonephele acontius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Epicaliini
Genus:	Catonephele Hübner, [1819]
Species
Several, see text
Synonyms
Epicalia Boisduval 1870 (non Doubleday, 1844: preoccupied) Epicalia Doubleday, 1844

Catonephele is a nymphalid butterfly genus found in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies.

Species

Listed alphabetically:

• Catonephele acontius (Linnaeus, 1771) – Acontius firewing
• Catonephele antinoe (Godart, [1824]) – Antinoe catone
• Catonephele chromis (Doubleday, [1848]) – cloud-forest catone
• Catonephele cortesi Maza, 1982 – West-Mexican catone
• Catonephele mexicana Jenkins & Maza, 1985 – Guatemalan catone
• Catonephele numilia (Cramer, [1775]) – blue-frosted banner, blue-frosted catone, Grecian shoemaker, or stoplight catone
• Catonephele nyctimus (Westwood, 1850)
• Catonephele orites Stichel, 1899 – orange-banded shoemaker butterfly
• Catonephele sabrina (Hewitson, 1851)
• Catonephele salacia (Hewitson, 1851)
• Catonephele salambria (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Salambria banner

• 
  C. acontius
• 
  C. numilia
• 
  Orange-banded shoemaker butterfly (C. orites)
• 
  C. antinoe
  Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
• 
  Underside C. antinoe
  Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

References

Media related to Catonephele at Wikimedia Commons