Genus Coenonympha - Ringlets

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers

Coenonympha tullia californica - Coenonympha tullia

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Coenonympha tullia - Common Ringlet - Hodges#4582 - Coenonympha tullia

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)

Family Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)

Subfamily Satyrinae (Satyrs, Morphos and Owls)

Tribe Satyrini (Alpines, Arctics, Nymphs and Satyrs)

Genus Coenonympha (Ringlets)

Other Common Names

Heaths (Europe)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Coenonympha Hübner, 1819: Type species: Papilio geticus Esper (= Coenonympha oedippus (Fabricius))

Phryne Herrich-Schäffer, [1844]. Type species: Papilio tircis Stoll

Triphysa Zeller, 1850. Type species: Papilio tircis Stoll

Chortobius [Dunning & Pickard], 1858. Type species: Papilio pamphilus Linnaeus

Lyela Swinhoe, 1908. Type species: Lyela macmahoni Swinhoe

Dubierebia Muschamp, 1915. Type species: Erebia myops Staudinger

Sicca Verity, 1953. Type species: Papilio dorus Esper

Sinonympha Lee, 1974. Type species: Sinonympha amoena Lee

Numbers

Coenonympha is a primarily Eurasian genus, with only two species [usually] recognized in North America, and at least one of these also widespread in Eurasia. There is much debate about species limits in this genus, and some would have C. tullia as found in North America divided into multiple species, each representing local populations, as well as considered entirely distinct from Eurasian C. tullia. In North America the genus is found mostly in northern and mountain regions, as well as far south as far as northern Baja California along the Pacific coast.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 May, 2004 - 7:37pm
Additional contributions by David Ferguson, Abigail Parker
Last updated 22 January, 2012 - 3:34pm

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