Polygonia


Classis : Insecta 
Ordo : Lepidoptera 
Rhopalocera 
Familia : Nymphalidae 
Subfamilia : Nymphalinae 
Tribus : Nymphalini 
Genus : Polygonia 
Hübner, 1819
   
Subdivisiones: Species
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Polygonia c-album alas angulares et maculam commatiforme habet.

Polygonia (Graece πολύς 'multi'[1] + γωνία 'angulus'[2]) est genus papilionum cui est conspicua macula alba in inferiori cuiusque alae posterioris latere, unde comma, nomen generale. Eis etiam sunt consipcuae incisurae angulares in exterioribus eorum alarum anteriorum marginibus. Nymphalis, genus cognatum, species similes comprehendit, et Polygonia eius subgenus aliquando habetur.[3]

Multae Polygoniae adultae hibernant.[4]

  1. [1], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Perseus.
  2. [2], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Perseus.
  3. "Nymphalis Kluk, 1780" in Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms, situ a Markka Savela facto.
  4. Scott, J. A. (1999). Hibernal diapause of North American Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 18(3):171-200.

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