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Placidina

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Placidina
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Placidina

d'Almeida, 1928
Species:
P. euryanassa
Binomial name
Placidina euryanassa
(C. & R. Felder, 1860)
Synonyms
  • Placidula d'Almeida, 1922

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]

References

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  1. ^ Placidula at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms