Archigenes (butterfly)
| Archigenes | |
|---|---|
| Archigenes aita | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Riodinidae |
| Genus: | Archigenes Fruhstorfer, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| Abisara aita de Nicéville, 1893 | |
Archigenes is a genus of metalmark butterflies found in Asia. The genus was formerly synonymized within the Abisara but a phylogenetic study found them to form a distinct clade within the Nemeobiinae.
Species placed within this genus include:
- Archigenes aita (De Niceville, 1893)
- Archigenes neophron (Guérin, 1843)
- Archigenes chela (Guérin, 1843)
- Archigenes attenuata (Tytler, 1915)
- Archigenes miyazakii (K. Saito & T. Saito, 2005)
- Archigenes atlas (de Nicéville, 1895)
- Archigenes savitri (Guérin, 1843)