Xenandra

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
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: Riodinidae
Subfamilia: Riodininae
Tribus: Symmachiini
Genus: Xenandra
Species: X. agria – X. ahrenholzi – X. desora – X. heliodes – X. helius – X. mielkei – X. nigrivenata – X. pelopia – X. poliotactis – X. vulcanalis
Name

Xenandra C.Felder & R.Felder, [1865].

Type species: Xenandra heliodes C.Felder & R.Felder, [1865]: 304, pl.38 figs 19-22. By monotypy.
Synonymy

Xenandra C. & R. Felder, [1865]: 304.
Andara Capronnier, 1874: 21.
Westwoodia Houlbert, 1918: 653; preocc. Westwoodia Brullé, 1846 Hymenoptera
Uestiudia Oiticica, 1955, replacement name for Westwoodia Houlbert.

References

Capronnier, J.-B. 1874. Notice sur les époques d'apparition des lépidoptères diurnes du Brésil recueillis par M. C. Van Volxem, dans son voyage en 1872. Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 17(1): 5–39, pl.1. BHL, plate. Reference page.
Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865–75. Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 under den Befehlen Commadore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Abtheilung. Vienna, 549 pp., 140 pls. Text. Plates. Reference page.
Hall, J.P.W. & Furtado, E., 1999. Two new species and one subspecies of Riodinid from southwest Brazil (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 10 (1): 19–24. Full article: [1]. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Houlbert, C.V. 1918: Révision monographique de la sous-famille des Castniinae. Etudes de Lépidoptérologie Comparée 15: 1–730. BHL. Reference page.
Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol. 5A. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439p. Reference page.
Oiticica Filho, J., 1955. Revisão dos nomes genéricos sul-americanos da subfamília Castniinae (Lepidoptera, Castniidae). Revista brasileira de Entomologia (São Paulo) 3: 137-167. Reference page.

Xenandra is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present in the Neotropical realm.
Species

Xenandra agria (Hewitson, [1853]) present in Brazil
Xenandra ahrenholzi Hall & Willmott 2007 present in Ecuador
Xenandra desora Schaus, 1928 present in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia
Xenandra heliodes C. & R. Felder, [1865] present in Brazil and Venezuela
Xenandra helius (Cramer, 1779) present in Costa Rica, Guyana and Peru
Xenandra mielkei Hall & Furtado, 1999 present in Brazil
Xenandra nigrivenata Schaus, 1913 present in Costa Rica
Xenandra pelopia (Druce, 1890) present in Colombia
Xenandra poliotactis (Stichel, 1910) present in Peru
Xenandra vulcanalis Stichel, 1910 present in Colombia

Sources

Xenandra at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
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