Dira is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
| Dira | |
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| D. clytus depicted in Seitz's Fauna Africana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Satyrini |
| Genus: | Dira Hübner, 1819 |
| Diversity | |
| Four species | |
Species
edit- Dira clytus (Linnaeus, 1764)
- Dira jansei (Swierstra, 1911)
- Dira oxylus (Trimen, 1881)
- Dira swanepoeli (van Son, 1939)
External links
edit- "Dira Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms