Amiga is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae erected by Shinichi Nakahara, Keith R. Willmott and Marianne Espeland in 2019. Amiga arnaca, formerly of the genus Chloreuptychia, is the only species in the genus Amiga. In 2019, Nakahara et al. described this new genus after molecular phylogenetic research showed it was not closely related to the other species of Chloreuptychia.[2]
| Amiga arnaca | |
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| Amiga arnaca indianacristoi, Venezuela | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
| Tribe: | Satyrini |
| Subtribe: | Euptychiina |
| Genus: | Amiga Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, 2019 |
| Species: | A. arnaca
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| Binomial name | |
| Amiga arnaca (Fabricius, 1776)
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Amiga arnaca is found from southern Mexico through most of Central and South America to southern Brazil, and is common in rain and cloud forests. The larvae feed on grasses, including Eleusine, Ichnanthus, Lasiacis, Oplismenus, and Paspalum.[2]
Subspecies
edit- Amiga arnaca adela Nakahara & Espeland, 2019
- Amiga arnaca arnaca (Fabricius, 1776)
- Amiga arnaca indianacristoi Nakahara & Marín, 2019
- Amiga arnaca sericeella (Bates, 1865)
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku. "Chloreuptychia arnaca (Fabricius, 1776)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
- ^ a b Nakahara, Shinichi; Lamas, Gerardo; Tyler, Stephanie; Marín, Mario Alejandro; et al. (2019). "A revision of the new genus Amiga Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, gen. n., described for Papilio arnaca Fabricius, 1776 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)". ZooKeys (821). Pensoft: 85–152. Bibcode:2019ZooK..821...85N. doi:10.3897/zookeys.821.31782. PMC 6367311. PMID 30740021.