Cupha

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Cupha
Bordered Rustic (Cupha prosope) - 30345087818.jpg
Cupha prosope
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Vagrantini
Genus: Cupha
Billberg, 1820
Synonyms
  • Messaras Doubleday, [1848]

Cupha is a butterfly genus of the family Nymphalidae found in the Indomalayan and the Australasian realms.

The contained species are:[1]

References

  1. ^ "Cupha Billberg, 1820" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Corbet A.S., Pendlebury H.M., Eliot J.N. 1992. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula (4th edn.) Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Parsons M. 1999. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea: Their Systematics and Biology. Academic Press, San Diego.

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