Placidina is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by d'Almeida in 1928. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It is a monotypic genus, containing only Placidina euryanassa described by father-and-son entomologists Cajetan and Rudolf Felder in 1860.[1]
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Genus: | Placidina d'Almeida, 1928
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Species: | P. euryanassa
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