| Tigridia acesta | |
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| Tigridia acesta tapajona, Brazil | |
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| Tribe: | Coeini (disputed)
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| Genus: | Tigridia Hübner, 1819
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| Species: | T. acesta
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| Tigridia acesta | |
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Papilio acesta Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Tigridia acesta, the tiger beauty, is a butterfly of the monotypic genus Tigridia in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.[1]
It is sometimes placed in the tribe Coeini and sometimes in the tribe Nymphalini.
- ^ "Tigridia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms