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Taygetis mermeria
Dorsal side - MHNT
Ventral side - MHNT
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Taygetis
Species:	T. mermeria
Binomial name
Taygetis mermeria (Cramer, )
Synonyms
Papilio mermeria Cramer, Faunus tenebrosus Blanchard, Taygetis mermeria f. crameri Weymer, 1910 Taygetis excavata Butler, 1868

Taygetis mermeria, the mermeria wood nymph, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found throughout the Neotropical realm from Mexico to Bolivia. The habitat consists of rainforests and cloudforests.

Subspecies

• Taygetis mermeria mermeria (Suriname, Bolivia, Brazil: Amazonas)
• Taygetis mermeria excavata Butler, 1868 (Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras)
• Taygetis mermeria griseomarginata Miller, 1978 (Mexico)

See also Taygetis mermeria f. crameri Weymer, 1910 ].

References

1. "Taygetis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes
3. Weymer, G. (1924). 4. Satyridae. In. The Macrolepidoptera of the world: a systematic account of all the known Macrolepidoptera. (Alternative title: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde: eine Systematische Bearbeitung der bis jetzt bekannten Gross-Schmetterlinge). Seitz, A. (Ed.). Vol. 5: (part 2). pp. 173–283. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.126182.

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• Butterflies described in 1776
• Euptychiina
• Lepidoptera of Bolivia
• Lepidoptera of Brazil
• Fauna of Costa Rica
• Fauna of Honduras
• Lepidoptera of Mexico
• Fauna of Panama
• Fauna of Suriname
• Nymphalidae of South America
• Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
• Butterflies of Central America
• Satyrini stubs