Greta (butterfly)

Greta
	Greta morgane
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Ithomiini
Genus:	Greta; Hemming, 1934
Type species
	Papilio diaphanus; (Drury, 1773)
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Hymenitis Hübner, 1816 non Hymenitis Illiger, 1807 = Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807, a related genus; Hypomenitis Fox, 1945;

Greta is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Arthur Francis Hemming in 1934. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae, and are found in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Species

Arranged alphabetically:^[1]^[2]

Greta alphesiboea (Hewitson, 1869)
Greta andromica (Hewitson, [1854]) – andromica clearwing
Greta annette (Guérin-Ménéville, [1844]) – white-spotted clearwing
Greta cubana (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1862) – Cuban clearwing
Greta clavijoi
Greta depauperata (Boisduval, 1870)
Greta dercetis (Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847)
Greta diaphanus (Drury, [1773]) – Antillean clearwing
Greta enigma (Haensch, 1905)
Greta esula (Hewitson, 1855)
Greta gabiglooris (Brabant & Bischler, 2005) – Gabi's clearwing
Greta gardneri (Weeks, 1901)
Greta hermana (Haensch, 1903)
Greta libethris (C & R Felder, 1867) – Libethris clearwing
Greta lojana (Vitale & Bollino, 2001)
Greta lydia (Weymer, 1899)
Greta morgane (Geyer, 1833) – thick-tipped greta, Morgane clearwing, rusty clearwing
Greta nero (Hewitson, 1854) – Nero clearwing
Greta ochretis (Haensch, 1903)
Greta oneidodes (Kaye, 1918)
Greta ortygia (Weymer, 1890) – orthygia clearwing
Greta oto (Hewitson, 1854) – glasswing
Greta polissena (Hewitson, [1863]) – Polissena clearwing
Greta telesilla (Weymer, 1899)
Greta theudelinda (Hewitson, [1861])

^ "Greta Hemming, 1934" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Nymphalidae Study Group website Archived 2009-02-19 at the Wayback Machine

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