Cethosia

Cethosia, commonly called the lacewings, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae. They are found mainly in southeastern Asia as far south as Australia.

Cethosia
Cethosia penthesilea paksha
Cethosia biblis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Acraeini
Genus:	Cethosia Fabricius, 1807
Species
See text
Synonyms
Alazonia Hübner, [1819] Eugramma Billberg, 1820

Species

Listed alphabetically:

• Cethosia biblis (Drury, [1773]) – red lacewing, common lacewing, or batik lacewing
• Cethosia cyane (Drury, [1773]) – leopard lacewing
• Cethosia cydippe (Linnaeus, 1767) – eastern red lacewing
• Cethosia hypsea Doubleday, [1847]
  • Cethosia hypsea hypsina (C. & R. Felder, 1867) – Malay lacewing
• Cethosia lamarcki Godart, 1819
• Cethosia luzonica C. & R. Felder, 1863 – Luzon lacewing
• Cethosia myrina C. & R. Felder, [1867] – violet lacewing
• Cethosia nietneri C. & R. Felder, [1867] – Tamil lacewing
• Cethosia obscura Guérin-Méneville, [1830]
• Cethosia penthesilea (Cramer, [1777])
  • C. p. methypsea (Butler, 1879) – plain lacewing
  • C. p. paksha (Fruhstorfer, 1905) – orange lacewing
• Cethosia tambora Doherty, 1891

Incertae sedis

• Cethosia moesta C. & R. Felder, [1867]
• Cethosia lechenaulti Godart, [1824]
• Cethosia gabinia Weymer, 1883
• Cethosia vasilia Müller, 1999

References

• Parsons M. (1999). The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea: Their Systematics and Biology. Academic Press, San Diego.
• Vane-Wright RI, and de Jong R. (2003). The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen 343: 1-267. PDF

External links

• Images representing Cethosia at EOL
• Images representing Cethosia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life