Placidina: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Placidina
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Placidina
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Placidina
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.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Aeria
- Athesis
- Brevioleria
- Dircennina
- Elzunia
- Epityches
- Eutresis
- Forbestra
- Godyris
- Greta
- Haenschia
- Heterosais
- Hyalenna
- Hyalyris
- Hypoleria
- Hyposcada
- Hypothyris
- Ithomia
- Mcclungia
- Mechanitis
- Megoleria
- Melinaea
- Methona
- Napeogenes
- Oleria
- Ollantaya
- Olyras
- Pagyris
- Patricia
- Placidina
- Pseudoscada
- Sais
- Scada
- Thyridia
- Tithorea
- Veladyris
- Velamysta

















