Dione moneta

Dione moneta, the Mexican silverspot, is a species of butterfly of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae found from southern United States to South America.[1]

Mexican silverspot
D. m. poeyii
Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama
Quito, Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Dione
Species:
D. moneta
Binomial name
Dione moneta
(Cramer, [1779])
Subspecies

See text

Synonyms
  • Dione poeyii Butler, 1873
  • Agraulis moneta Doubleday, 1848 (not Hübner, 1819)
D. m. poeyii
Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:[1]

  • D. m. butleri Stichel, [1908]
  • D. m. moneta Hübner, [1825]
  • D. m. poeyii Butler, 1873

References
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  1. "Dione Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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