Methona grandior grandior

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Danainae
Tribus: Ithomiini
Subtribus: Mechanitina
Genus: Methona
Species: Methona grandior
Subspecies: Methona grandior grandior

Name

Methona grandior grandior (Forbes, 1944)

Type locality: St. Laurent, French Guiana.

Holotype: CU. male ♂.

Synonymy

• Thyridia grandior Forbes, 1944 (original comination)
• Methona grandior (Forbes):

References

Primary references

• Forbes, W.T.M. 1943. The genus Thyridia (Lepidoptera, Ithomiinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 36(4): 707–716. Full article (PDF) on CHLA. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Willmott, K.R., Lamas, G., Hall, J.P.W., Vitale, F., Boyer, P., Petit, J.C., Radford, J.T. & Elias, M. 2021. A new species and thirty-eight new subspecies of equatorial Ithomiini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Danainae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31 (Supplement 3): 1-80. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5526837. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Grand Amberwing