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Episcada
Sign in to saveEpiscada is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1879. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 29
- With media
- 17
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, SDNHM, FMNH, NHMUK, MNHN, USNM
- Recorded in
- Bolivia, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru
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Episcada is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1879. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.
==Species== Arranged alphabetically: Episcada apuleia (Hewitson, 1868) Episcada canilla (Hewitson, 1874) Episcada carcinia Schaus, 1902 Episcada clausina (Hewitson, 1876) Episcada doto (Hübner, [1806]) Episcada hemixanthe (C. & R. Felder, 1865) Episcada hymen Haensch, 1905 Episcada hymenaea (Prittwitz, 1865) Episcada mira (Hewitson, 1877) Episcada philoclea (Hewitson, [1855]) Episcada polita Weymer, 1899 Episcada salvinia (Bates, 1864) Episcada sulphurea Haensch, 1905 Episcada sylpha Haensch, 1905 Episcada ticidella (Hewitson, 1869) Episcada vitrea d'Almeida & Mielke, 1967
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